Tapan Kumar Pradhan

Who is Tapan Kumar Pradhan?

Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan is an award-winning Indian writer, poet and activist. He hails from Laxmisagar in Bhubaneswar.

Dr Pradhan is best known for his translation into English of his own Oriya poem collection Kalahandi for which he won Sahitya Akademi's Golden Jubilee Indian Literature Translation Prize for Poetry in 2007 along with Rana Nayar. His other award winning and popular poems include Equation and The Hour of Coming. His poems The Storm, Epitaph, Boddhisattva and Wind in the Afternoon, published in the Poetry Society Journal, have won critical acclaim. In the words of the Nobel prize winning Polish writer Wislawa Szymborska, with whom he was in correspondence, Dr Pradhan is a "skilled wordsmith, whose poems make engaging reading...".