Gopinath Mohanty is a
leading novelist of post-Independence India. He wrote his classic Paraja in
1945. It’s a novel of mythic simplicity whose central character Sukru Jani
belongs to the Tribe called Paraja. The novel was translated by Prof. B K Das
and published by Oxford University Press. Later, it was also published in
England by Faber and Faber.
The Paraja, who lives
in the densely wooded hills and valleys of the Eastern Ghats, knows suffering
and deprivation. He knows
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is one of India’s most distinguished writers. A Jananpith awardee, he has published more than 15 collections of poetry in Oriya and anthologies of tribal oral literature.
