About The Book
Nanasense A coinage by the translator, it is a portmanteau word derived from the Odia "Nanabaya" (meaning lullaby in Oriya) and "Nonsense" in English. Also, the word, "nana" in Oriya means "varieties" or "various types". Thus "nanasense" suggests both: that the collection comprises various kinds of nonsense and that the rhymes included in this collection are culled from JP's nonsense and nanabaya collections, Alimalika (1993), Alukuchimalukuchi (1993), Anabana (2008)]
J.P. Das is a poet, fiction writer and playwright in Odia. He was educated at the University of Utkal and Allahabad, and did his doctorate in Art History. Beginning his career as a teacher, he then joined the Indian Administrative Service, which he later left to pursue research and creative writing. Besides poetry, novels and plays he has also written several boks on Orissan art. His collection of poems for children and nonsense poems include Alimalika, Alukuchi Malukuchi and Anabana. His works have been widely translated into Hindi, English and other Indian languages. He has been honoured with many awards including Sahitya Akademi and Saraswati Samman.
About The Author
Sumanyu Satpathy is currently Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Delhi, India. His publications have been mostly around Modernism, Queer Studies, Postcolonialism, and Literary Nonsense, both in English and Odia. Among his published works are Reading Literary Cultures: Perspectives from Orissa, Southern Postcolonialisms: "New" Literary Representations and the Global South (ed) and The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense (co-ed). His articles have appeared in edited volumes such as Children's Literature and the Fin de Siècle and Same Sex Love in India, as well as in journals. As a visiting faculty, he has lectured widely at universities in India and abroad. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University.
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