Himansu S Mohapatra

About The Author

Himansu S. Mohapatra is a former Professor of English, Utkal University. He has produced, with Paul St-Pierre, an edited volume of Odia stories in English translation, entitled The Other Side of Reason (2008), and, three books of translation: Following My Heart (2023), an autobiographical work by J.M. Joarda, Battles of Our Own (2022), an ‘industrial novel’ set in Odisha, by Jagadish Mohanty, and Basanti: Writing the New Woman (2019), the first woman-oriented Odia novel, written by nine authors in 1931. A selection of his literary journalism has been published as Model of the Middle (2014). He studied at Sambalpur University, Odisha and University of East Anglia, UK. He is currently Visiting Professor of English at Central University of Odisha, Koraput.

Books by Himansu S Mohapatra

The Life and Times of Banka Harichandan
By Dipti R Pattanaik
Translated by Himansu S Mohapatra
A tremendous portrait of the hopes and horrors, the threads of delicate perception and the pangs of fear and illusion, of a growing boy's life in a provincial town in Odisha. Banka Harichandan returns us to the unique atmosphere, at once particular and universal, of our own childhood. 
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