Manoj Panda

Maya Bagicha Manoj Panda

Maya Bagicha is a collection of short stories by Odia short story writer Manoj Kumar Panda. This book has received 2015 Sarala Award given by IMFA Trust. An award-winning short fiction writer, Manoj Kumar Panda has three published collections of short fictions, Hada Bagicha (1992), Varna Bagicha (2003) and Maya Bagicha (2010). He has also translated two plays, All My Sons by Arthur Miller (2017) and Cross Purpose by Albert Camus (2019) in Odia. His works have been translated in English as The Bone Garden and Other Stories (Rupantar, 2009) and One Thousand Days In A Refrigerator (Speaking Tiger, 2016). He has also scripted a collection of literary essays 'Sabda Sasya' (Events publication, 2017). On his short fictions, two books of critical appreciation have been published, 'Sabda Sanketa O Sunyasthana' (Pakshighara, 2012) Edited by Dr Santosh Kumar Rath, and 'Sabda Bagicha' (Athena Books, 2018) by Biswanath Sahu. He has received many literary accolades including prestigious Sarala Award in 2015 for "Maya Bagicha".