Sarojini Sahoo
| Sarojini Sahoo ସରୋଜିନୀ ସାହୁ |
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Sarojini Sahoo
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4 January 1956 Dhenkanal, Odisha, India |
| Occupation | Novelist, Short story writer, Poet, Essayist, Academician |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | present |
Sarojini Sahoo (Odia: ସରୋଜିନୀ ସାହୁ) (born 1956) is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winnerIndian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine Indian AGE, who has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by Kindle Magazine of Kolkata.
Born in the small town of Dhenkanal in Odisha (India), Sahoo earned her MA and PhD degrees in Odia Literature and a Bachelor of Law from Utkal University. She now teaches at a degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, Odisha.
She is the second daughter of Ishwar Chandra Sahoo and the late Nalini Devi and is married to Jagadish Mohanty, a veteran writer of Odisha. She has a son and a daughter.
She has published ten anthologies of short stories.
Her English anthologies of short stories are:
Her some of short stories have been anthologised in Hindi:
Some of her short stories have also been anthologized into Bengali:
Her other Odia anthologies of short stories are:
She won the Odisha Sahitya Academy Award and Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award for her collection of short stories titled, Amrutara Pratikshare.
She has published eight novels in Odia.
Her novel Gambhiri Ghara proved to be a bestseller in Odia literature. Her novels have gained a reputation for their feminist outlook and sexual frankness and have been translated into English and published from India under the title The Dark Abode (2008) () and published from Bangladesh in Bengali as Mithya Gerosthali ( 2007 ) (). Prameela K.P has translated this novel into Malayalam and has been published as "Irunda Koodaram" by Chintha Publishers, Thiruvananthapuram. Martina Fuchs for German and Dinesh Kumar Mali for Hindi. Another novel Pakhibas has been translated into Bengali and published from Bangladesh under the same title in 2009. This novel has been translated into Hindi by Dinesh Kumar Mali and has been published with same title by Yash Prakashan, Delhi () in 2010.
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