Jayanta Mahapatra - Awards

Awards

• Second Prize – International Who’s Who in Poetry, London, 1970.
• Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award – Poetry, Chicago, 1975.
• Visiting Writer – International Writing Program, Iowa City 1976-77.
• Cultural Award Visitor, Australia, 1978.
• Japan Foundation – Visitor’s Award, Japan, 1980.
• Sahitya Academy Award – National Academy of Letters, New Delhi, 1981.
• Invited Poet – Asian Poets Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1984.
• Indo-Soviet Cultural Exchange Writer, USSR, 1985.
• Resident Writer – Centro Culturale della Fondazione Rockefeller, Bellagio, Italy, 1986.
• Invited Poet – University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1988.
• Singapore Festival of Arts, Singapore. 1988.
• New Literatures in English Conference, Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Giessen,
• West Germany, 1989
• ACLALS Silver Jubilee Conference, Canterbury, England, 1989.
• First Prize – Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, 1990.
• Invited Poet – Poetry International, The South Bank Centre, London, England, 1992.
• Cuirt International Poetry Festival, Galway, Ireland, 1992.
• EI Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico. 1994
• Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, La Jolla, USA. 1994.
• Gangadhar National Award – For Poetry, Sambalpur University, 1994
• Ramakrishna Jaidayal – Harmony Award, 1994, New Delhi.
• Vaikom Mohammad Basheer Chair – Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, 1996-97.
• Invited Poet – ACLALS Conference, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1998.
• Awarded Honorary Degree – Doctor of Literature, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2006.
• Invited Poet – Weltklang Poetry Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
• Bishuva Award – Prajatantra Prachara Samiti, Cuttack, 2007.
• Padma Shree Award – India's Padma Shree Award, 2009.
• SAARC Literary Award, New Delhi, 2010