Gopinath Mohanty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gopinath Mohanty

Indian (Odia) writer

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1914

Place of Birth: Cuttack District, Odisha, India

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1991

Profession: writer, civil servant, academic

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Gopinath Mohanty

  • Gopinath Mohanty (1914–1991), winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955 - for his novel, Amrutara Santana - was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century.
  • Satya Prakash Mohanty, Professor of English, Cornell University says: "In my opinion, Gopinath Mohanty is the most important Indian novelist in the second half of the twentieth century."

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