Basanta Kishore Sahoo

Who is Basanta Kishore Sahoo?

Basanta Kishore Sahoo is a research scholar and a children's writer who published his Ph. D thesis on the topic of "Oriya Moukhika Shisu Sahitya." He is an Indian children's writer and research scholar who created his own field. He was born on 15 March 1955, at Kusupur, a famous village in the Mahanga block of Cuttack District of Orissa State where Palikabi Nanda Kishore Bal, Silpiguru Bimbadhar Barma, Kabi Gyanindra Burma, Reporter Rajendra Burma and Suvendra Burma, Editor Pradmyuna Bal and Sishu Sahityika Nanda Kishore Bal were born. His father's name is Bira Kishore Sahoo and mother's name Malli Dei. Now he is working as a Lecturer in Oriya at Aeronautics College, Sunabeda of Koraput District.

He wrote 25 books in Oriya, English, Hindi and Bengali. Phula Ame Phula is his first children's poem collection which was published in 1992. After that his book Agada Bagada Jhainki Jhumpa was published which gave him name and fame. He wrote both criticism and creative books for children as well as scholars of the state in his mother tongue Oriya. He got his Ph.