The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told

Odia fiction reaches English readers here through a selection that runs from Fakir Mohan Senapati's nineteenth-century satire to writers working much closer to the present. The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told was brought into English by its editor-translators, Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre and K.K. Mohapatra, and it gathers work by authors including Gopinath Mohanty and Manoj Das. The stories move through village and city life, caste and labour, love, injustice and change, and the translations aim to keep the cadence of the originals rather than smooth it away. For a literature that travels less often than it deserves, the volume serves as anthology and introduction at the same time. Small details, big difference: • An anthology of Odia short fiction assembled for English readers • Writers spanning the classical period through to the present day • Translations prepared by a long-established editorial team • Context for readers approaching Odia writing for the first time For readers of Indian regional literature and students of translation. Published by Aleph and available from Boipoka.