Sachidananda Routray
Sachidananda Routray | |
|---|---|
 Sachidananda Routray | |
| Born | 13 May 1916 Gurujang,Bihar and Orissa Province,British India |
| Died | 21 August 2004(aged 88) Cuttack,Orissa,India |
| Pen name | Sachi Rautara |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Pallisri |
| Notable awards | Jnanpith Award |
Sachidananda Routray(13 May 1916 – 21 August 2004) was an Indian poet, novelist and short-story writer who wrote inOdia.He receivedJnanpith Award,the highest literary award of India, in 1986. He was popularly known asBiplabi Kabi(revolutionary poet)Sachi Routray.[1]
Life
[edit]Routray was born inGurujang,nearKhurdaon 13 May 1916.[2]He was brought up and educated inBengal.He married aTeluguprincess from the royal family of Golapalli.[1]
Routray started writing poems from the age of eleven.[1]He was also involved in freedom struggle while in school. Some of his poems were banned byBritish Rajfor revolutionary content. He died inCuttackon 21 August 2004.[1]
Works
[edit]He started his writing career through "patheya" (1st poetry) in 1932.In 1943, Routray became very famous among Odia readers when he publishedBaji Rout,a long poem that celebrated the martyrdom of a boatman boy who succumbed to the bullets of British police when he refused to take them in his rickety boat to cross the river Brahmani. He was a prolific poet and published as many as twenty anthologies. HisPallishri,dealing with village life inOdisha,is as successful as his poemPratima Nayakthat portrays the suffering and the predicament of a city girl. He belonged to a group of writers who called themselves 'poets of the people'.[1]
Routray also published a few poems with religion as their theme.
"Chhota Mora Gan Ti" was written by Routray. This topic is now taught by most of the teachers in Odisha.
Awards and recognitions
[edit]- Padmashreein 1962.[1]
- Sahitya Akademi Awardin 1963 for the poetryKabita-1962.[3]
- Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1965.[1]
- Jnanpith Awardin 1986.[4]
Lifetime fellowship (kendra sahitya academi) - 1988 "Mahakabi" samman-1986 - Rourkela, 1988 - Cuttack President - Nikhil Bharat Kabita Sammelan - Kolkata (1968), Rourkela (1988) Sahitya Bharati Award - 1997
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcdefg"Sachidananda Routray passes away".The Hindu.22 August 2004. Archived from the original on 5 January 2005.Retrieved6 November2008.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^"SACHI ROUTRAY".orissadiary.com.2012. Archived fromthe originalon 10 May 2012.Retrieved23 May2012.
Sachi Routray was born in Gurujang near Khurda on May 13, 1916.
- ^"Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 (Odia)".Sahity Akademi.Retrieved6 November2008.[dead link]
- ^"Jnanpith Laureates".Bharatiya Jnanpith. Archived fromthe originalon 13 October 2007.Retrieved6 November2008.
External links
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- 1916 births
- 2004 deaths
- Poets from Odisha
- Indian male poets
- Odia-language poets
- Recipients of the Jnanpith Award
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia
- 20th-century Indian poets
- People from Khordha district
- 20th-century Indian male writers
- Recipients of the Utkal Ratna Samman