Matimatala

by Gopinath Mohanty

Gopinath Mohanty was awarded Sahitya academy(1955), FirstGynapith award(1973) in oriya literature for his book Amrutara Santan, Matimatal. Gopinath Mohanty was a dedicated, disciplined and prolific Oriya writer. One of the best that the state ever produced. He believed in actually getting into the depth of a subject before attempting to write. And he choose subjects where not much written records existed, or not much research work was done: he had to experience it first-hand before actually putting pen to paper. Thus came the books on the tribal people of Orissa, the untouchables and on issues like illiteracy, superstition and the debilitating caste system. What was really endearing was that most of these were written as fictions and were gripping, as Gopinath Mohanty was a master storyteller.

936 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Gopinath Mohanty, winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955 - for his novel, Amrutara Santana - was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century.