Born in 1956, Dr Sarojini Sahoo has an MA and PhD degrees in Oriya Literature, and a Bachelor of Law, from Utkal University. She now teaches at a Degree college in Belpahar, Jharsuguda, of Orissa.

A distinguished feminist writer, and an earlier editor of Pallaba, a fiction oriented Oriya journal, she has been conferred with the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1993, the Jhankar Award, 1992, the Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award and the Prajatantra Award. She has published seven anthologies of short stories and five novels. The anthologies are: Sukhara Muhanmuh (1981), NijaGahirareNije (1989), Amrutara Pratikshare (1992), Chowkath (1994), Tarali Jauthiba Durga (1995), Deshantari (1999), and Dukha Apramita (2006). The novels are: Upanibesh (1998), Pratibandi (1999), Swapna Khojali Mane (2000) Mahajatra (2001) and Gambhiri Ghara (2006).

                                                                           
She has been widely translated and published in different Indian languages. Her stories have been included in anthologies published by Harper Collins, National Book Trust and Sahitya Akademi. She has attended various All India Writer’s meet and workshops arranged by Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal, Sahitya Akademi and National Book Trust. Doordarshan’s National Channel has featured her in its tele-serial “Literary Postcard.”

 

She can be reached at her email: sarojinisahoo2003@yahoo.co.in