Janharati (Oriya Edition) - Softcover

Mishra, Yashodhara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1645600424 ISBN 13: 9781645600428

Publisher: Black Eagle Books, 2019

Synopsis

Janharati is a short story collection of ten short stories which were written in mid 1980s and published in various Odia literary journals. All the stories have been translated in Hindi, English and other Indian languages. The title story Janharati was broadcasted as a radio play by All India Radio. This was also staged as a Hindi play by National School of Drama, New Delhi. This collection has received Odisha Sahitya Academy award and Bhubaneswar Book Fair award in 1990.

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About the Author:

A well-known name in Odia literature, Yashodhara Mishra has published 15 books including short stories, novels, poems and translated works. Translated into most Indian and a few foreign languages, some of her works are placed in significant literary anthologies. She has received the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award, Katha Award ( New Delhi), Odisha Book Fair Award and Amrutayana Samman among many others. A Ph.D. in American Literature, she has been a Professor of English in Madhya Pradesh. She is the first woman to be the Editor of Indian Literature, the English journal published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, the premier Indian Academy of Letters.

Review:

Yashodhara Mishra's stories are indicative of Indian feminism's coming of age, as her women protagonists are not infantilized victims, but adults confronting adult problems. They are not afraid to experiment or to take responsibility for their mistakes ... - Prof. Ruth Vanita, Montana University

An ability to capture and deftly handle the nuances of complex human relationships accounts for the special appeal and peculiar power of Yashodhara Mishra's short stories. - Prof. Jatindra Kumar Nayak, Utkal University

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Eagle Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1645600424
• ISBN 13: 9781645600428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126