Atibadi Jagannath Das Award

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Atibadi Jagannath Das Award
Award for contributions to Odia literature
Awarded forLiterary award in Odisha, India
Sponsored by Odisha Sahitya Akademi
First awarded1993
Last awarded2020
Highlights
First winner Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1993)
Latest winner Ramachandra Behera (2020)
Total awarded28
Website Odisha Sahitya Akademi

Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman is a literary award [1] awarded by Odisha Sahitya Akademi to an Odia language litterateur for lifetime contribution to Odia literature. This is the most respectable honor to any litterateur by the academy. This award is named after 15th century Odia poet Atibadi Jagannath Das who was also known as Atibadi (greatest). Started in 1993, the first award was given to Odia poet Radha Mohan Gadanayak. As of 2020, 28 awards have been awarded. [2] [3]

List of awardees

Name of winner [4] YearRef
Radha Mohan Gadanayak 1993
Krushnachandra Tripathy1994
Natabar Samantaray 1995
Rajakishore Pattanayak1996
Laxmidhara Nayak1997
Gouri Kumar Brahma 1998
Nityananda Mohapatra 1999
Binod Chandra Nayak 2000
Basanta Kumari Patnaik 2001
Achyutananda Pati2002
Chintamani Behera2003
Manoranjan Das 2004
Umashankar Panda2005
Sudarshan Acharya2006
Manoj Das 2007
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo 2008
Dasharathi Das2009
Chandrasekhar Rath 2010
Gaganendra Nath Dash2011
Brajanath Rath 2012
Dhaneswara Mohapatra2013
Shantanu Kumar Acharya 2014
Madhusudan Pati2015 [5]
Bibhuti Patnaik 2016 [6]
Rabi Singh 2017 [7]
Ramakanta Rath 2018 [8]
Binapani Mohanty 2019
Ramachandra Behera 2020

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