Atibadi Jagannath Das award
Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman is a literary award awarded by Odisha Sahitya Akademi to an Odia language litterateur for lifetime contribution to Odia literature. This is the most respectable honor to any litterateur by the academy. This award is named after 15th century Odia poet Atibadi Jagannath Das who was also known as Atibadi. Started in 1993, the first award was given to Odia poet Radha Mohan Gadnayak. So far, 20 awards have been awarded.
List of awardees
Name of winner | Year | Comments |
Radhamohan Gadanayak | 1993 | |
KrushnaChandra Tripathy | 1994 | |
Natabara Samantray | 1995 | |
Rajkishore Pattanayak | 1996 | |
Laxmidhara Nayak | 1997 | |
Gouri Kumar Brahma | 1998 | |
Nityananda Mohapatra | 1999 | |
Binod Chandra Nayak | 2000 | |
Basanta Kumari Patnaik | 2001 | |
Achyutananda Pati | 2002 | |
Chantimani Behera | 2003 | |
Manoranjan Das | 2004 | |
Umashankar Panda | 2005 | |
Sudarshan Acharya | 2006 | |
Manoj Das | 2007 | |
Mohapatra Neelamani Sahoo | 2008 | |
Dasharathi Das | 2009 | |
Chandrasekhara Rath | 2010 | |
Gaganendra Nath Dash | 2011 | |
Brajanath Rath | 2012 | |
Dhaneswara Mohapatra | 2013 | |
Shantanu Kumar Acharya | 2014 | |
Madhusudan Pati | 2015 | |
Bibhuti Pattanayak | 2016 | |
Rabi Singh | 2017 | |
Ramakanta Rath | 2018 |