Yashodhara_Mishra

Yashodhara Mishra

Yashodhara Mishra

Indian writer and poet

Dr. Yashodhara Mishra (born 1951) is a Odia writer and poet. She is a professor of English who has published poems, several collections of short stories and novels. She was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.

Quick Facts Born, Occupation ...

Life

Mishra was born in Sambalpur in 1951. She is a poet and a professor of English who has published several collections of short stories and novels. She has worked in the Odia language, Hindi and English.[1]

Mishra has garnered a number of awards including the Katha Prize Story award.[2]

She is a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study where her research includes rituals and gender and the Women of Orissa.[3]

Mishra won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia in 2020 for her book, Samudrakula Ghara.[4]

Awards

References

  1. [1]
    Yashodhara Mishra Archived 4 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, SamanvayIndianLangiagesFestival, Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  2. [2]
    Meenakshi Sharma; Geeta Dharmarajan (1997). Katha Prize Stories. Katha. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-81-85586-52-6.
  3. [3]
    Yashodhara Mishra, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Sahitya Akademi announces 2020 Odia, Malayalam awards". The Hindu. 24 August 2021.


India flag icon Stub icon

This article about an Indian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Yashodhara_Mishra, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.