Key facts
- Born
- 17 September 1937, Cuttack district
- State of birth
- Cuttack district, Odisha
- Sector
- Literature & writing
- Profession
- Indian writer from Odisha
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Sitakant Mahapatra is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and has since held ex officio posts such as Banking Ombudsman of Odisha and Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi etc.
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Timeline
- 1937Born in Cuttack district
- 1974Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award
- 1981Awarded the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award
- 1983Awarded the Bisuba Award
- 1985Awarded the Sarala Puraskar
- 1993Awarded the Jnanpith Award
- 2003Awarded the Padma Bhushan
- 2015Awarded the SAARC Literary Award
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) · U.S. Library of Congress South Asian Literary Recordings Project.