Bipin Nayak
1950 Distinguished odia poet.
Bipin nayak, a trend setter in modern poetry, known for his style and stance has so far published nine anthologies of poetry and there other collections of essays, short stories and articles pertaining to literary criticism.
His pioneering work,’jatrar ketoti pad’ is an unprecedented, post modernist creative piece, in odia literature as well as contemporary Indian literature.
It is a master piece defying the genre which may belong to the rare work of auto fiction which very few writers have ventured even in world literary scene.
Known for his freshness of imagery , appeal, aesthetics , musicality, and memorability , Bipin Nayak has curved out a place for himself in contemporary odia literature.
He served in khallikote university and retired from govt service as, associate professor and head of the post graduate department of economics in 2008.
H e is the recipient of odissa sahitya akademi award and many other distinguished awards from the state like gangadhar meher samman, Bisub jhankar purskar, koraput literary festival award, sarla sahitya sansad samman, sachivalay lekhak Parishad samman etc. to name a few.he was short listed several times for Kendra sahitya akademi award too.
As a significant poet, He has been variously translated into hindi, English and Bengali.