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Pratibha Ray | |
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| Born | (1944-01-21)21 January 1944 (age 81) Alabol,Balikuda,Jagatsinghpur,Odisha,India |
| Language | Odia |
| Education | M.A. (Education), PhD (Educational Psychology)[1] |
| Alma mater | Ravenshaw College |
| Notable works | Yajnaseni,Shilapadma |
| Notable awards | Jnanpith Award Moortidevi Award |
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Pratibha Ray (born 21 January 1944) is an Indian academic and writer ofOdia-language novels and stories. For her contribution to the Indian literature, Ray received theJnanpith Award in 2011. She was awarded thePadma Bhushan in 2022.[2]
She was born on 21 January 1944, at Alabol, a remote village in the Balikuda area ofJagatsinghpur district formerly part ofCuttack district ofOdisha state.[3]She was the first woman to win theMoortidevi Award in 1991.[4]Her first novelBarsha Basanta Baishakha (1974)[5] was a best seller.
Her search for a "social order based on equality, love, peace and integration", continues, since she first penned at the age of nine. When she wrote for a social order, based on equality without class, caste, religion or sex discriminations, some of her critics branded her as a communist, and some as feminist.[6] But she says: "I am a humanist. Men and women have been created differently for the healthy functioning of society. The specialities women have been endowed with should be nurtured further. As a human being, however, woman is equal to man."
She continued her writing career even after her marriage and raising a family of three children and husband Akshay Ray who is an engineer. Her post-doctoral research was onTribalism and Criminology of Bondo Highlander,[7][8][9] tribes of Odisha, India.
She started her professional career as a school teacher, and later she taught in various government colleges in Odisha for thirty years. She has guided doctoral research and has published many research articles. She took voluntary retirement as a Professor of Education from State Government Service and joined as Member, Public Service Commission of Odisha.[10]
She has active interest in social reform[11] and has fought against social injustice on many occasions. One important incident in her life is protesting against colour (caste/religion) discrimination by the high priests of Jagannath Temple at Puri. She is currently fighting a defamation case lodged by the priests against her for her newspaper article in which she wrote against the undesirable behaviour of the priests, titled "The Colour of Religion is Black" (Dharmara Ranga Kala).[12] She works in the cyclone-affected areas after the Odisha's Super Cyclone of October 1999 and she is working for rehabilitation of the orphans and widows of Cyclone affected areas.[13]
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Ray has travelled extensively inside India to participate in various national literary and educational conferences. She visited five republics of the erstwhile USSR in 1986 in a cultural exchange programme sponsored by ISCUS. She represented India as an Indian writer in the India Fair in Australia, "India Today 94". sponsored by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi, in 1994. She gave readings and talks on Indian literature and languages in several universities of Australia. She has also visited the US, UK and France on speaking tours, represented India as an Indian writer in the India Festival in Bangladesh in 1996, and attended the 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in theUniversity of Tromsø, Norway, in June 1999 as an Indian delegate. She visited Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark on a speaking tour in 1999. Visited Zurich, Switzerland, in 2000 to present a paper in the Third European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education.
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She is a member of a number of learned societies. She is connected with theIndian Council for Cultural Relations, Central Board of Film Certification, Indian Red Cross Society, India International Centre, National Book Trust of India, Central Academy of Letters etc. She has travelled extensively in India and abroad to participate in various literary and educational conferences. She has won a number of national and state awards for her creative writing.
Novels
an M.A. in Education and PhD in Educational Psychology.
She was born to a Gandhian teacher on January 21, 1943, at Alabol village.
first woman to win the Jnanpith Moorti Devi Award.
her first novel as a novice, titled "Barsha-Basanta-Baishakha" (The Rain, Spring and Summer, 1974) which immediately captured the hearts of Odia readers.
She took voluntary retirement as a Professor of Education from State Government Service in 1998 and joined as Member, Public Service Commission of Odisha State
Roy's Sahitya Akademi winning novel ' Sheela Padma'
It has been translated into seven languages so far and won for the authoress Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust's Moorti Devi Award and Sarala Award of Orissa in 1990.
Her story "Moksha" has been made into a film and won the best film award from President of India.
Yjnaseni (1985), which won Jnanpith Trust's Moorti Devi Award in 1991
Smt. Pratibha Ray will be awarded the Ashram's Amrita Keerti Puraskar for her meritorious contributions to the field of Indian literature.
it was decided that Ray, 69, will be the winner of the 2011 Jnanapith Award.
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