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Manu Dash
Manu Dash (b. 1956) is a bilingual poet (Kala Harina, A Brief History of Silence), editor (Rebati: Speaking in Tongues, Anam Kabya Andolan and), translator (Bagha, Shakuntala, Mohan Das), publisher (Dhauli Books) and director (Odisha Art & Literature Festival). An author of almost thirty books, Dash joined the Anam Writers Movement—an anti-establishment movement in Odia literature—shortly before the imposition of Emergency in India in 1975. He is the founder of Dhauli Books, which won the prestigious Publishing Next Industry Award for the Best Printed Book of the Year (Indian Languages) in 2018. Currently, he is editing anām, an international journal for literature.
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Kathryn Moris
Manu Dash is a leading Indian bilingual poet, translator, editor and curator of literature festivals. He writes in English as well as in Odia language.
Manu’s more than 40 books ranging from poetry collection to edited anthologies and 8 translation work.
His poetry has been translated into various Indian and oversea languages including, Hindi,Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, German and Slovene. His works received critical acclaim across languages and territory.
Manu started his writing career at the age of 19 and joined a literary group known for writing anti-establishment poetry-anam poetry movement- started in the spiritual city, Puri.
Manu hails from rural village in the Cuttack district of Odisha and later moved around the country for a living and settled in Bhubaneswar, capital and temple city of Odisha.
A Word From The Author
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