Check back every Tuesday for a new set of five! This week's collection includes Matira Manisha by Kalindi Charan Panigrahi and Nara Kinnara by Santanu Kumar Acharya among others.
Dinakala by Bibhuti Patanik
An Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award winning author, Patanik has over 150 titles to his name.
Matira Manisha by Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
Translated as Born of the Soil by Bikram K. Das
A recipient of the Padma Bhushan, this novel was Panigrahi's magnum opus. Based on Gandhian thought, it revolves around a peasant family whose simple joys and sorrows are bound up with the soil. The book was later adapted into a film.
Achihna Basabhumi by Kalpanakumari Devi
This Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel portrays the changes in society through three generations of a family.
Kanamamu by Kantakabi Laxmikanta Mohapatra
While Mohapatra wrote a wide variety of poems and plays, this is his only novel.
Nara Kinnara by Santanu Kumar Acharya
Translated as Nara Kinnara by Shanakar Lal Purohit
A Odisha Sahitya Academy Award-winning classic novel whose title can be understood as 'The Man and the Sub Humans'.
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