Fakir Mohan Senapati

Fakir Mohan Senapati was born in January 1843 in Mallikashpur, near Balasore; orphaned very young, he was raised by his grandmother and paid for his studies by working. A schoolteacher in Balasore, he had the town's first printing press opened there in 1868, founded in 1867 a society for the defence of the Odia language, then became an administrator in several princely states of Orissa. He translated the Ramayana and the Mahabharata single-handedly, which earned him the nickname Vyasa of Orissa, and published the first short narrative in his language. He died in Balasore on 14 June 1918.

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• NovelSix Acres and a Thirdଛ ମାଣ ଆଠ ଗୁଣ୍ଠFakir Mohan Senapati · 1902Literature