Mamata Dash (neeMohapatra ; born 4 October 1947) is an
Odia poet, writer and translator. She was awarded the
Odisha Sahitya Academy Award for her poetry collection Ekatra Chandrasurya.
Early life
Dash was born on 4 October 1947 at
Jagatsinghpur. Her father Ramachandra Mohapatra was a doctor. Her mother was Pankajmala. She had four sisters and three brothers. Her early education came at Jagatsinghpur before she moved to Ravenshaw Girls School, Cuttack. She started writing aged nine.[2]
Works
Poetry collections
Naimisharanya
Ekatra chandrasurjya
Abak svarga (in Odia). Kataka Shtudentas Shtora. 1989.
OCLC24504041.