Bhubaneswar: Professor Pramod Kumar Mohanty, noted poet and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award winner, passed away in Odisha’s capital on Wednesday morning. He was 82.
Mohanty, a native of Bagalpur in Cuttack, was conferred with the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for ‘Asaranti Anasara’, a collection of poems.
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A psychology teacher, he also won the 63rd Annual Bishuba Samman, an award instituted by former Odisha Chief Minister Harekrushna Mahatab and Prajatantra Prachar Samiti, Cuttack.
His first book ‘Kramasha’ was published in 1967. His other noted works are Devipada, Akatakata, Shyahi Chhita, Akshyara Seba and Chitra Chitraka Chitrapedi.
