Dr. Chittaranjan Misra is the Head
Department of English in B.J.B. Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar. He is a bilingual
writer and has published books including poetry, criticism and translation. His
books include Harold Pinter: The Dramatist.. He has translated four plays of
Pinter Albert Camus’s The Outsider into Odia, authored six anthologies of poems in Odia and
one in English. Dr. Misra has published his poems and papers in European Connections, NOCL(USA),Indian Literature, Kavya
Bharati, Indian Journal of
English Studies, Dibrugarh
Journal of English Studies, Atlantic Literary Review, Rock
Pebbles, Indian Age, Muse India,
and other journals of Odisha .
He has been felicitated by
several literary Institutions in Odisha like Prajantra Prachar Samiti,Cuttack
in Bisuva Milan – 1976,Panchama Veda, Rourkela on 1st April, 1988,Sandhyatara
Sahitya Sansad, Dhenkanal in May, 1993,Abhinandanika, Puri in Feb, 1997,Utkal
Cultural Association, Puri, 1997,Srikhetrashree, Puri, 1998, Satta Sahitya
Samman, Koraput on 14.4.2006,Sarata Sahitya Parisad, Cuttack on 6th May, 2007,Sudhanya Samman, Bhubaneswar on 7th
February,2015.
He visited University of Lyon,
France as the only Indian Guest speaker
in the International Conference on Harold Pinter (21st March to 25th March,
2007) where he presented his paper and was interviewed.
In addition to his 32 research
articles in English published in the country and abroad he has written more
than 30 Papers in Odia and has published them in leading journals of Odisha
including Jhankara, Esana, Konarka,Saptarshi and Paurusa. About
300 of his poems in Odia have been published in Odia magazines during last
three decades. His English translation of poems from major Odia poets like Gopabandhu Dash, Sachi
Rautray, Guru Mohanty, Surya Mishra, Pritidhara Samal have been published in Indian
Literature and The Mahanadi Review. He has translated sixteen Odia
poems of contemporary Odia poets for the Translation volume of Poetry ‘Crossed
Words’ published recently by Bhubaneswar Sahitya Samaj. He has co-edited ‘Voyage’,
another anthology of contemporary Odia poems published by Bird Nest in
2017.Some of his poems have been translated into English by Padmashri Jayanta
Mahapatra and Bibhu Padhi. He is a Life Member of Indian Society for
Commonwealth Studies, Delhi and Utkal Sahitya Samaj, Sriramachandra Bhaban,
Cuttack. He has supervised research works of scholars of Utkal University at
the Doctoral level and has lectured in Refresher Courses as a Resource Person.
He has participated in more than seventy seminars –both National and
International.
Titles of his books are: Mukhasala
(Odia poems), Bhitare Bahare Barsa (Odia Poems), Priyatama
(Translation of Pinter’s play The Lover), Harold Pinter : The Dramatist(Literary
Critcism),Ratnachira (Odia Poems) ,Party Time O Anyanya Nataka (Translation of Pinter’s
plays) ,Web Site (English poetry), Ajanma (Odia Poetry), Sampratika
Paschatya Sahitya Tatwa(Literary Theory/Criticism),My Dear Kanha
(Translation of Poetry),Ta Piladina (Translation of Novel), Bibasa
(Odia poetry), Silence and Silencing(Literary Criticism)Aparichita(Odia Translation of Albert
Camus’ The Outsider), Anabarna(Odia)Poetry), Sampratika Sahitya O Tatwa Bichara(Literary Criticism).