Dr. Yashodhara Mishra (born 1951) is a Odia writer and poet. She is a professor of English who has published poems, several collections of short stories and novels. She was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.

Yashodhara Mishra
Born1951
Sambalpur, Odisha, India
OccupationWriter, poet
LanguageOdia
NationalityIndian
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award (2020)

Life

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Mishra was born in Sambalpur in 1951. She is a poet and a professor of English who has published several collections of short stories and novels. She has worked in the Odia language, Hindi and English.[1]

Mishra has garnered a number of awards including the Katha Prize Story award.[2]

She is a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study where her research includes rituals and gender and the Women of Orissa.[3]

Mishra won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia in 2020 for her book, Samudrakula Ghara.[4]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Yashodhara Mishra Archived 4 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, SamanvayIndianLangiagesFestival, Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  2. ^ Meenakshi Sharma; Geeta Dharmarajan (1997). Katha Prize Stories. Katha. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-81-85586-52-6.
  3. ^ Yashodhara Mishra, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Sahitya Akademi announces 2020 Odia, Malayalam awards". The Hindu. 24 August 2021.
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