Check back every Tuesday for a new set of five! This week we have a host of women writers including Sahitya Akademi Award winners Pratibha Ray and Susmita Bagchi.
Ullanghan by Pratibha Ray
A recipient of the Jnanpith Award as well as the Padma Shri, Ray has written novels and short stories, and even a play. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Ullanghan is a collection of short stories.
Granthali by Kuntala Kumari Sabat
Honoured with the title Utkala Bharati, Sabat was a key figure in the freedom struggle, and her poems often reflect her patriotic principles and glorify Orissa's past.
(1922)
Deba Shishu by Susmita Bagchi
Translated as Children of a Better God by Bikram K. Das
A recipient of the the Sahitya Akademi Award, Bagchi builds her novel around the protagonist's transformative journey after she returns from the States to India, and comes to teach at a school for children suffering from cerebral palsy.
Janharati by Yashodhara Mishra
Janharati is a short story collection of ten short stories which were written in mid 1980s and published in various Odia literary journals. It received the Odisha Sahitya Academy award and Bhubaneswar Book Fair award.
Gambhiri Ghara by Sarojini Sahoo
Translated as The Dark Abode by Mahendra Kumar Dash
The novel, from the recipient of the Odisha Sahitya Academy Award, revolves around its protogonist, Kuki's relationship with two men in her lives and her exploitation at their hands. Its English translation also includes sketches by American poet and painter Ed Baker, and the work has been translated into several other languages.
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