Jayanta Mahapatra

Jayanta Mahapatra
Jayanta Mahapatra (born 1928) is one of the best known Indian English poets.

Indian Poets Trio

Besides being one of the popular Indian poets of his generation, Mahapatra was also part of the trio of poets who laid the foundations of Indian English Poetry. He shared a special bond with A. K. Ramanujan, one the finest poets in the IEP tradition. Mahapatra is also different in not being a product of the Bombay school of poets besides R. Parthasarathy. Over time, he has managed to carve a quiet, tranquail poetic voice of his owndistinctly different from those of his contemporaries. His wordy lyricism combined with authentic Indian themes put him in a league of his own.

Career
All his working life, he taught physics at various colleges in Odisha including Gangadhar Meher College, Sambalpur, B.J.B College, Bhubaneswar, Fakir Mohan College, Balasore and Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. He retired in 1986.[1] Mahapatra has authored 27 books of poems, of which 7 are in Odiya and the rest in English. His poetry volumes include Relationship, Bare Face and Shadow Space. Mahapatra is a Sahitya Akademi awardee, and also a recipient of the Jacob Glatstein award conferred by Poetry magazine, Chicago. He was also awarded the Allen Tate Poetry Prize for 2009 from The Sewanee Review, Sewanee, USA. He received the SAARC Literary Award, New Delhi, 2009. Besides poetry, he has experimented widely with myriad forms of prose. His published books of prose are Green Gardener, an anthology of short stories and Door Of Paper: Essay and Memoirs. Mahapatra is also a distinguished editor and has been bringing out, for many years, a literary magazine, Chandrabhaga, from Cuttack. The magazine is named after Chandrabhaga, a prominent river in Orissa. He began writing writing poetry when he was into his 40s. The publication of his first book of poems, Svayamvara and Other Poems, in 1971 was followed by the publication of Close The Sky Ten By Ten. One of Mahapatra's better remembered works is the long poem Relationship, for which he the first Indian English poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award in 1981. He was conferred the Padma Shri in 2009 by the president of India and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ravenshaw University on 2 May 2009. He was also awarded Litt. D. degree by Utkal University in 2006.

Awards
Second Prize International Whos Who in Poetry, London, 1970. Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award Poetry, Chicago, 1975. Visiting Writer International Writing Program, Iowa City 1976-77. Cultural Award Visitor, Australia, 1978. Japan Foundation Visitors Award, Japan, 1980. Sahitya Academy Award National Academy of Letters, New Delhi, 1981. Invited Poet Asian Poets Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1984. Indo-Soviet Cultural Exchange Writer, USSR, 1985. Resident Writer Centro Culturale della Fondazione Rockefeller, Bellagio, Italy, 1986. Invited Poet University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1988.

Singapore Festival of Arts, Singapore. 1988. New Literatures in English Conference, Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Giessen,

Jayanta Mahapatra West Germany, 1989 ACLALS Silver Jubilee Conference, Canterbury, England, 1989. First Prize Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, 1990. Invited Poet Poetry International, The South Bank Centre, London, England, 1992. Cuirt International Poetry Festival, Galway, Ireland, 1992. EI Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico. 1994 Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, La Jolla, USA. 1994. Gangadhar National Award For Poetry, Sambalpur University, 1994 Ramakrishna Jaidayal Harmony Award, 1994, New Delhi. Vaikom Mohammad Basheer Chair Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, 1996-97. Invited Poet ACLALS Conference, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1998. Awarded Honorary Degree Doctor of Literature, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2006. Invited Poet Weltklang Poetry Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2006. Bishuva Award Prajatantra Prachara Samiti, Cuttack, 2007. Padma Shree Award India's Padma Shree Award, 2009. SAARC Literary Award, New Delhi, 2010

Poetry Readings
Outside India University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1976 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1976 University of the South, Sewanee, 1976 East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1976 Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide, 1978 P.E.N. Centre, Sydney, 1978 Australian National University, Canberra, 1978 International Poets Conference, Tokyo, 1980 Asian Poets Conference, Tokyo, 1984 Aoyama University, Tokyo, 1984 Sapporo University, Sapporo, 1984 Writers Union, Moscow, Leningrad & Lvov, USSR, 1985 Singapore Festival of Arts, Singapore, 1988 Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur, 1988 University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1988 Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, 1988 University of the Philippines, Manila City, 1988 Museong Kalinangang Pilipino, Manila, 1988 Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 1992 Sligo Arts Centre, The Grammar School, Sligo, 1992 The Guild Hall, Derry, 1992 WEA, Newcastle upon Tyne, Hexham and Durham, 1992 The South Bank Centre, London, 1992 Universities of Hull and Leeds (UK), 1992 The Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 1994

Instituto de Cultura de Campeche, Mexico, 1994 Instituto de Cultura de Puebla, Mexico,1994 Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, USA, 1995

Jayanta Mahapatra Hunter College, New York, USA, 1995 University of the South, Sewanee, USA, 1995 Writers Forum, De Kalb College, Atlanta, USA, 1995 Writers Forum, St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, USA, 1995 British Council, Kandy, 1998 Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo, 1998

In India Andhra University University of Jadavpur Calcutta University University of Delhi Osmania University The Poetry Centre, Hyderabad Visva-Bharati Santiniketan North East Hill University Shillong Tezpur University IIT Guwahati India International Centre New Delhi Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal University of Lucknow DAV College, Kanpur Arts, Science & Commerce College, Durg

Books by Jayanta Mahapatra

Poetry 1971: Close the Sky Ten by TenCalcutta, Dialogue Publications[2] 1971: Svayamvara and Other PoemsCalcutta, Writers Workshop[2] 1976: A Father's Hours Delhi, United Writers[2] 1976: A Rain of Rites Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press[2] 1979: WaitingSamkaleen Prakashan[2] 1980: The False Start, Bombay, Clearing House[3] 1980: Relationship Greenfield, New York, Greenfield Review Press[2] 1983: Life Signs New Delhi, Oxford University Press[2] 1986: Dispossessed Nests Delhi/Jaipur, Nirala Publications[2] 1987: Selected Poems New Delhi, Oxford University Press[2] 1988: Burden of Waves & Fruit Washington DC, Three Continents Press[2] 1989: Temple Sydney/Mundelstrup/Coventry Dangaroo Press[2] 1992: A Whiteness of Bone Viking Penguin[2] 1995: The Best of Jayanta Mahapatra Kozhikode, Kerala, Bodhi Publications[2] 1997: Shadow Space Kottayam, Kerala, DC Books[2] 2000: Bare Face Kottayam, Kerala, DC Books[2]

2006: Random Descent Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Third Eye Communications[2] 2006: Samparka, Natuna Dilli: Shitya Akdemi[4]

Jayanta Mahapatra 2009: The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974-2008 New Delhi, Authorspress[2] 2013: Land New Delhi, Authorspress[2] Prose 1997: The Green Gardener, short stories, Hyderabad, Orient Longman[2] 2006: Door of Paper: Essay and Memoirs New Delhi, Authrospress[2] 2011: Bhor Moitra KanaphulaIn Odiya. Bhubaneswar,Paschima[2] Poetry in Odiya 1993: Bali (The Victim) Cutack, Vidyapuri[2] 1995: Kahibe Gotiye Katha (I'll Tell A Story) Arya Prakashan[2] 1997: Baya Raja(The Mad Emperor) Cuttack, Vidyapuri[2] 2004: Tikie Chhayee (A Little Shadow) Cuttack, Vidyapuri[2] 2006: Chali (Walking) Cuttack, Vidyapuri[2] 2008: Jadiba Gapatie (Even If It's A Story) Cuttack, Friends Publishers[2] 2011: Smruti Pari Kichhiti ( A Small Memory) Cuttack, Bijayini[2]

Edited 2013:Ten: The New Indian poets : Edited and Selected by Jayanta Mahapatra & Yuyutsu Sharma New Delhi/Jaipur Nirala Publications[5] Anthologies Mahapatra's poems have been anthologized in the celebrated volumes of Indian poetry edited by R. Parthasarathy and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Significant anthologies in which his work appears are: The Poetry Anthology 1912 - 1977, Boston, USA (Houghton Milfin, 1978) The Vintage Book of Contemporary Poetry ( J.D McClatcky, Editor - Random House, USA, 1996) The Poetry Anthology 1912 -2002, Chicago, USA (Ivan R. Dee, 2002)

Critical studies
2001: Bijay Kumar Das, The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: third revised and enlarged edition; New Delhi, Atlantic, ISBN 81-7156-968-4[6] 2006: Jaydeep Sarangi and Gauri Shankar Jha, editors, The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra, New Delhi, Sarup and Sons, 2006, ISBN 81-7625-622-6, a compilation of critical articles[7] Jayanta Mahapatra Joy Of Living And Loving In His Poetry, Author: Jaydeep Sarangi, Aavishkar Publishers' Distributors Year: 2012, ISBN 10: 8179103749, Printed INR: 600.00,Binding: Hard Cover,Pages: 162

Notes
[1] (http:/ / www. museindia. com/ showauthornew2. asp?id=66) Web page titled "Jayanta Mahapatra's Profile" at the Muse India Web site, accessed October 16, 2007 [2] Bibliography in Land by Jayanta Mahapatra. Authorspress 2013 [3] Bibliography in Land by Jayanta Mahapatra. Authorspress 2013 [4] Search results page (http:/ / www. worldcat. org/ title/ samparka/ oclc/ 309705929& referer=brief_results), WorldCat website, retrieved August 10, 2010 [5] http:/ / yuyutsurdsharma. blogspot. sg/ 2012/ 10/ ten-new-indian-poets-edited-and. html [6] (https:/ / www. vedamsbooks. com/ no20919. htm) Vedam's Books from India Web site, accessed October 16, 2007 [7] (https:/ / www. vedamsbooks. com/ no43705. htm) Vedam's Books from India Web site, accessed October 16, 2007

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External links
Literary review, The Hindu, October 2, 2005 (http://www.hindu.com/lr/2005/10/02/stories/ 2005100200220100.htm) A Profile of Jayanta Mahapatra (http://www.orissagateway.com/features/Arts_and_Architecture/Art/ Literature/Poets/Jayanta_Mohapatra) JM's poem Freedom from The Little Magazine (http://www.littlemag.com/hunger/jayanta.html) An Article by JM (http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/01/10/d40110210288.htm) Interview at Muse India (http://www.museindia.com/showconnew2.asp?id=459) Jayanta Mahapatra's Official Homepage (http://www.jayantamahapatra.com) Jayanta Mahapatra's Video Interviews (http://www.jayantamahapatra.com/video.asp) Interview in Mint (http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Tejg57qNEfUBT7jGQV0UbI/ Jayanta-Mahapatra--Something-in-me-refuses-to-die.html)

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