Cuttack-based Poet Jayanta Mahapatra has been declared the winner of the Kanhaiya lal Sethia Award for Poetry 2017 at the Jaipur literature Festival here.
In association with the K.l. Sethia Foundation, the award has been established in memory of Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia and carries a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh.
The distinguished jury comprised poet and author Sudeep Sen, festival director Namita Gokhale and distinguished poet and critic Sukrita Paul Kumar.
Mahapatra’s works have appeared in virtually every important literary journal and several collections, which include Relationship (USA), and which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award 1981.
He has read his poetry throughout the world from the Adelaide Festival of Arts (Australia) and the Cuirt International Poetry Festival (Ireland), to Poetry International at the South Bank, london, among others.