Tuesday 21 March 2017

About Dr. Gayatribala Panda


Dr. Gayatribala Panda (b.1977) is a well known Odia poet, fiction writer, literary critic and journalist. She is the recipient of first Sahitya Akademi “ Yuva Puraskar” in Odia for her poetry collection “GAAN”(The Village) in 2011. In 2012, She was named as one of the ten best young writers in the country by the English daily Indian Express(Eye Magazine). She was the 'Writers in-residence' at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2015. She has to her credit nine collections of poetry (two of which translated into Hindi), three novels and a collection of short story.