Sachidananda Routray

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Sachidananda Routray
Born (1916-05-13)13 May 1916
Gurujang, Khordha
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Cuttack
Pen name Sachi Rautara
Ethnicity Odia
Genre Poetry
Notable works Pallisri
Notable awards Jnanpith Award

Sachidananda Rautray (1916–2004) was an Odia poet, novelist, short-story writer. He received Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award of India, in 1986. He was popularly known as Sachi Routray.[1]

Life

Routray was born in Gurujang, near Khurda on 13 May 1916.[2] He was brought up and educated in Bengal. He married a Telugu princess 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 by British Raj for revolutionary content.

He died in Cuttack on 21 August 2004.[1]

Works

He started his writing career through " patheya " (1st poetry) in 1932.In 1943, Routray became very famous among Odia readers when he published Baji 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. His Pallishri, dealing with village life in Odisha, is as successful as his poem Pratima Nayak that 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 teaching by most of the teacher in Odisha.

Awards and recognitions

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

References

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