Role Dramatist Name Manoranjan Das | Spouse Kusum Kumari Das | |
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Children Punyasloka, Sabita,Sujata,Sikata Books The Wild Harvest, August Na, A Dialogue with Memory Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Theatre - Playwriting (Oriya) Literary movement Modernism, Experimental literature | ||
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Manoranjan Das (Odia: ମନୋରଞ୍ଜନ ଦାସ) (10 March 1923 - 17 February 2013) was an influential Indian dramatist, and pioneer of modernism in Odia Literature. He was known for his experimentalism and deep socio-political awareness, who became most known in the 1960s with his experimental theatre.
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Works
- Works in translation
- References
Amongst his most known work are, Kathagodha (The Wooden Horse) and Aranya Fasal (The Wild Harvest), which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award (1971). In a career spanning over four decades, his plays include Janmamati (Land of Birth) written in 1943 and his latest Nandika Kesari which appeared in 1985.mm
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Early life and education
Born in 1923 in a village (named "Patana,42-Mouza,Cuttack sadar") near Cuttack, he did his schooling in Kunjang near Paradip, completing his intermediate in 1942. Thereafter he joined Ravenshaw College in Cuttack.
Career
He joined All India Radio where he rose to the level of Producer Emeritus. During his literary career, he has written 14 other plays, including Aranya Fasal (The Wild Harvest), which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award given Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in 1971, and the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2004.
His other plays are Jauban (Youth), August Na (The Ninth August 1947), Baxi Jagabandhu (The Sacrifice of Jagabandhu), Agami (The Oncoming), Abarodha (The Seize), Kathagodha (The Wooden Horse), and Sabdalipi (The Word-script).