About The Author
Manoj das was born in 1934 in a small village in the Eastern Coast of Orissa. He grew up to be a youth leader with radical views and suffered a term of imprisonment and took a leading part in the Afro-Asian students' conference at Bandung in 1956. But he carried on his creative writing and became one of the foremost bi-lingual authors writing in English and Oriya. Author of nearly sixty books, he has received numerous accolades including the Sahitya Academi Award, the Orissa Sahitya Academi Award (twice), the Sahitya Bharati Samman, the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award, the BAPASI Award, Sri Aurobindo Puroshkar, the Saraswati Samman, the Padma Decoration and D. Lit (Honoris Causa) from five Universities so far. His fiction has been translated into major Indian and several international languages. The Sahitya Academy has conferred on him its highest honour-the Fellowship which, according to its constitution, is 'reserved for immortals in literature'. He is an ardent disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry and has widely made their philosophy accessible to different classes of audience. He is currently Professor of English literature at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry.
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