Bhagaban Jayasingh

Biography from 2024

Bhagaban Jayasingh: is an eminent bilingual writer, who has published nine books in Odia, including Sahitya Akademi award winning Ferranti Ghar and about seven in English and English translation. Black Eagle Books has published The Dapples of Darkness, an anthology of his poetry in English and Footprints of Fire, a translation of seventy-four contemporary Odia poets. Recently Central Sahitya Akademi has brought out Sitakant Mahapatra: A Reader, edited by him. His critical work on modern Odia poetry Door to Despair: Modernism in Odia Poetry has been published by Authors Press, New Delhi. Dr Jayasingh has received a flurry of literary awards, including Vishub Jhankar, Jivan Rang, Utkal Sahitya Samaj and Odisha Sahitya Akademi awards for poetry.