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Born
in 1956, Dr Sarojini Sahoo has an MA and PhD degrees
in Oriya Literature, and a Bachelor of Law, from
Utkal University. She now teaches at a Degree college
in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, of Orissa.
A distinguished feminist writer,
and an earlier editor of Pallaba, a fiction oriented
Oriya journal, she has been conferred with the Orissa
Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award,
1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and the Prajatantra
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She
has published seven anthologies of short stories
and five novels. The
anthologies are: Sukhara Muhanmuh (1981), NijaGahirareNije
(1989), Amrutara Pratikshare (1992), Chowkath
(1994), Tarali Jauthiba Durga (1995), Deshantari
(1999), and Dukha Apramita (2006). The novels
are: Upanibesh (1998), Pratibandi (1999), Swapna
Khojali Mane (2000) Mahajatra (2001) and Gambhiri
Ghara (2006).
Well known for her frankness,Sarojini
Sahoo, is a prime figure and trendsetter of feminism
in contemporary Oriya literature. For her; feminism
is not a gender problem or any confrontational
attack on male hegemony. So, it is quite different
from that of Virginia Wolf or Judith Butler. She
accepts feminism as a total entity of female hood
which is completely separate from the man’s
world. She writes with a greater consciousness
of women bodies, which would create a more honest
and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation
and non-linearity. Her fictions always project
a feminine sensibility from puberty to menopause.
The feminine feelings like restrictions in the
adolescence, the pregnancy, the fear factors like
being raped or being condemned by society and
the concept of a bad girl etc always have the
thematic exposure in her novels and short stories.
Born in a small town of Dhenkanal in Orissa (India),
Sarojini has an MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature
and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University. She
now teaches at a Degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda
of Orissa. She is the second daughter of Mr.Ishwar
Chandra Sahoo and Mrs.(Late) Nalini Devi and has
married to Mr.Jagadish Mohanty , a veteran writer
of Orissa.and has a son and a daughter.
She has been conferred with the
Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar
Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and
the Prajatantra Award. She has published eight
anthologies of short stories and five novels.
Recently an English anthology of her translated
stories is published by ‘Grassroots’
of Kolkata/Bhubaneswar.Her other anthologies are:
Sukhara Muhanmuh (1981), NijaGahirareNije (1989),
Amrutara Pratikshare (1992), Chowkath (1994),
Tarali Jauthiba Durga (1995), Deshantari (1999),
and Dukha Apramita (2006). The novels are: Upanibesh
(1998), Pratibandi (1999), Swapna Khojali Mane
(2000) Mahajatra (2001) and Gambhiri Ghara (2006).
She has been widely translated and published in
different Indian languages. Her stories have been
included in anthologies published by Harper Collins,
National Book Trust ,Gnanapith and Sahitya Akademi.Once
she was also the editor of Oriya Literary Magazine
the Pallaba and fiction oriented English timely
journal the Breakthrough.
Delhi Doordarshan, the National
Channel of India has featured her life style and
creations in its special tele-serial “Literary
Postcard . |
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