Jayanta Mahapatra, iconic poet, no more

Eminent poet Jayanta Mahapatra has passed away at a hospital in Odishas Cuttack, his family members said..

Mahapatra, admitted for treatment of pneumonia, breathed his last on Sunday night.. Bhubaneswar, August 27..

Born in Cuttack on October 22, 1928, Mahapatra was the first Indian poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry..

The author of Indian Summer and Hunger considered as classics in modern Indian English literature Mahapatra penned 27 books of poems, of which seven are in Odia language and the rest in English..

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