Atibadi Jagannath Das Award | |
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Award for contributions to Odia literature | |
Awarded for | Literary award in Odisha, India |
Sponsored by | Odisha Sahitya Akademi |
First awarded | 1993 |
Last awarded | 2020 |
Highlights | |
First winner | Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1993) |
Latest winner | Ramachandra Behera (2020) |
Total awarded | 28 |
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]
Name of winner [4] | Year | Ref |
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Radha Mohan Gadanayak | 1993 | |
Krushnachandra Tripathy | 1994 | |
Natabar Samantaray | 1995 | |
Rajakishore Pattanayak | 1996 | |
Laxmidhara Nayak | 1997 | |
Gouri Kumar Brahma | 1998 | |
Nityananda Mohapatra | 1999 | |
Binod Chandra Nayak | 2000 | |
Basanta Kumari Patnaik | 2001 | |
Achyutananda Pati | 2002 | |
Chintamani Behera | 2003 | |
Manoranjan Das | 2004 | |
Umashankar Panda | 2005 | |
Sudarshan Acharya | 2006 | |
Manoj Das | 2007 | |
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo | 2008 | |
Dasharathi Das | 2009 | |
Chandrasekhar Rath | 2010 | |
Gaganendra Nath Dash | 2011 | |
Brajanath Rath | 2012 | |
Dhaneswara Mohapatra | 2013 | |
Shantanu Kumar Acharya | 2014 | |
Madhusudan Pati | 2015 | [5] |
Bibhuti Patnaik | 2016 | [6] |
Rabi Singh | 2017 | [7] |
Ramakanta Rath | 2018 | [8] |
Binapani Mohanty | 2019 | |
Ramachandra Behera | 2020 | |
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