Nityananda Mahapatra | |
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Portrait of Nityananda Mahapatra | |
Member: Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1957–1971 | |
Preceded by | Mahamad Hanif |
Succeeded by | Harekrushna Mahatab |
Constituency | Bhadrak |
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Born | (1912-06-17)17 June 1912 Bhadrak, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India |
Died | 17 April 2012(2012-04-17) (aged 99) Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India |
Cause of death | Respiratory Failure |
Political party | Orissa Jana Congress |
Occupation | Writer, politician |
Awards | Sahitya Akademi Award,1987 |
Nityananda Mahapatra (17 June 1912 – 17 April 2012)[1] was an Indian Odia politician, poet and journalist.
He was imprisoned three times by the British Raj between 1930 and 1942 for nationalist activities.[2] He came to literary prominence as editor of the Odia magazine Dagara,[3] and as a short story writer after independence.[4] In his political career Mohapatra served as a member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1971[5] and as state Minister of Supply and Cultural Affairs from 1967 to 1971.[6]
He died on 17 April 2012 at around 9:45 am at Kharavelanagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, from complications of respiratory failure. He had been in a coma at the Aditya Care Hospital following a breathing problem. He was three months short of his 100th birthday.[7]
Mohapatra has translated the Ramavataram (also known as the Kamba Ramayanam), the Tamil version of the Ramayana, into Odia.[8]: 214 Other works that he translated into Odia include Ramana Maharshee and Swarajya Sanghitaa.[8]
Mahapatra received the Odisha Sahitya Academy Award in 1974[9] and the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987 for his novel Gharadiha.[10]
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2001–present |
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2001–present |
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