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Bharati Nayak

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AWARDS & HONOURS:

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- Top 500 World Poets, PoemHunter Database

- 'Poetic Basil' Title conferred by PoemHunter 

- Sahitya Lahari Award, Int Cosmos Society 2018

- Star Ambassador of World Poetry & Art  Philosophique Poetica International Award in Literature, World Poetry Conference 2019

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Bharati Nayak was born in 1962 and is a bilingual poet, critic, and translator from Odisha, India, writing in both English and Odia.

 

Her poetry has been widely published in magazines, journals, anthologies, and e-zines of national and international repute, and in close to a hundred books namely The Tranquill Muse, Rock Pebbles, Orissa Review, Utkal Prasang, Creation and Criticism, Circular Whispers, Nova Literature-Poesis, PoetryAgainst Terror, 56 Female Voices of Poetry, The Four Seasons Poetry Concerto, Tunes From the Subcontinent, Amaravati Poetic Prism, Glomag, OPA Anthology, Different Truth, Pangolin Review, Poets and Poetry, Muse of Now Paradigm, and the like. 

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Bharati has been felicitated by Literary Groups, Asha Srotaswini Magazine, Ashapradeep Newspaper, Criticspace Journal, Odia Sahitya Jagata, Realm of Poems, Poemarium, and Eternal Flames. She has also participated in well-known international poetry festivals like the 11th Guntur International Poetry Festival, Amaravati International Poetry Festival, Rockpebbles National Poetry Festival, Authorspress-GIEWECBhubaneswar Lit. Experia, and the like.


Her published works are: Padma Paada (A poetry book in Odia language), Words Are Such Perfect Traitors, and A Day for Myself.

 

She has co-authored the following books: Radical Rhythm volumes 1, 2 & 4 and worked as the Editor for Radical Rhythm Vol-3. ‘In the Realms of Love & Divinity’ which was released on 3rd December 2020, was jointly written with the German poet Dr.Antony Theodore.

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During the Covid 19 lockdown of 2020, she set about translating Lost in a Quatrain by Adiela Akoo after falling in love with the universal messages of the deep, soulful poetry that strongly resonated with her own life experiences, particularly as a woman.

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Bharati holds a Master's degree in Political Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and is married with three children.

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'These are my treasures
I give them away with no bounds
Take it
As much as you wish
But leave
Only a day for me'

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- Bharati Nayak

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Bharati's Books
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Translated by Bharati
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Lost in a Quatrain is such a wonderful book that brings to the fore the struggles, pains, as well as the victory of the women in a society where woman subjugation, colour discrimination, and religious predominance were quite common. While translating the book I felt as if it is not Adiela Akoo speaking, but me and billions of other women, all speaking about our own struggles” - Bharati Nayak​

Click on the cover image to purchase a copy of this dual language book 

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