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词条 Mamang Dai
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  1. Life

  2. Works

  3. Awards

  4. See also

  5. External links

  6. References

  7. External links

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|language = * Adi
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  • Padma Shri (2011)
  • Sahitya Akademi Award (2017)

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Mamang Dai is an Indian poet, novelist and journalist based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. She received Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017 for her novel The Black Hill.

Life

Mamang Dai was born on 23 February 1957 at Pasighat, East Siang district, to Matin Dai and Odi Dai. Her family belongs to the Adi tribe. She completed her schooling from Pine Mount School, Shillong, Meghalaya. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Gauhati University, Assam.[1][2]

She was selected for the IAS in 1979, but later she left the post to pursue her career in journalism. She is the first woman from her state to be selected for IAS.[3] While working as a journalist, she contributed to The Telegraph, Hindustan Times and The Sentinel. She has also worked with in radio, as well as TV-AIR and DDK, Itanagar. Where she worked as an anchor and conducted interviews.[4][5]

She was appointed as programme officer at World Wide Fund for Nature, known as WWF, where she worked in the Eastern Himalayas Biodiversity Hotspots programme. She is formar secretary of Itanagar Press Club. Currently she is the president of Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUW).[2] In 2011 she was appointed as a member of Arunachal Pradesh state public service commission.

Works

Her non-fictional works includes Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land (2003) and Mountain Harvest: The Food of Arunachal (2004). The Sky Queen and Once Upon a Moontime (2003) are illustrated folklore texts by her. She published her first novel, The Legends of Pensam, in 2006, which was followed by Stupid Cupid (2008) and The Black Hill (2014). River Poems (2004), The Balm of Time (2008) Hambreelsai's Loom (2014), Midsummer Survival Lyrics (2014) are her poetry collection. The balm of time was also published in Assamese as El Balsamo Del YTiempo.[1]

When she began writing, she wrote romantic verse and stories. She then moved from the theme of the self to focus on a larger reality. She reflects upon the sense of a close knit community living in remoter towns and villages.[6]

Some of the positions that she has occupied comprise General Secretary of the Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society, member of the North East Writers’ Forum and General Council member of the Sahitya and Sangeet Natak Akademi.[4]

Awards

She received Padma Shri in 2011 from the Government of India. The government of Arunachal Pradesh conferred her Annual Verrier Elwin Prize in 2013 for her book Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land .[2][7] She received Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017 for her novel The Black Hill.[8][9]

See also

  • Indian English Literature
  • Literature from North East India

External links

  • Interview in Thanal Online
  • Poetry and the Northeast: Foraging for a destiny
  • Negotiating Change With Memory

References

1. ^{{cite web |last1=Sarangi|first1=Jaydeep|last2=Dai|first2=Mamang|title=In Conversation with Mamang Dai|url=https://journals.flinders.edu.au/index.php/wic/article/view/23/19|date=2 August 2017|publisher=Flinders University}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Ramaṇika Gupta|title=Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FWCiWWeRCU4C&pg=PA23|accessdate=24 February 2018|volume=Vol. 1|year=2006|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-8069-300-7|pages=23–24}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishingnext.in/mamang-dai/|title=Mamang Dai – Publishing Next|website=www.publishingnext.in|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-26}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/16974/27/Mamang-Dai|title=Mamang Dai (poet) - India - Poetry International|website=www.poetryinternationalweb.net|language=en|access-date=2018-05-26}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://rlpoetry.org/the-phenomenal-woman-an-interview-of-mamang-dai-by-ananya-guha/|title=RædLeafPoetry-India – The Phenomenal Woman- An interview of Mamang Dai by Ananya Guha|website=rlpoetry.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-26}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/cou_article/item/17068|title=The Land as “Living Presence” (article) - India - Poetry International|website=www.poetryinternationalweb.net|language=en|access-date=2018-05-26}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |accessdate=July 21, 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=November 15, 2014}}
8. ^{{cite web | title=Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh win Sahitya Akademi award- Entertainment News, Firstpost | website=Firstpost | date=2017-12-21 | url=http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/mamang-dai-and-ramesh-kuntal-megh-win-sahitya-akademi-award-4269907.html | access-date=2018-02-23}}
9. ^{{cite web |title=Arunachal author Mamang Dai among 24 winners of 2017 Sahitya Akademi awards |url=https://scroll.in/latest/862334/arunachal-author-mamang-dai-among-24-winners-of-2017-sahitya-akademi-awards |website=scroll.in |publisher=scroll.in |accessdate=10 February 2019}}

External links

  • {{Gbooks-author|Mamang Dai}}
{{Authority control}}{{Sahitya Akademi Award for English}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dai, Mamang}}

14 : 1957 births|Writers from Northeast India|English-language poets from India|English-language writers from India|Writers from Arunachal Pradesh|Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education|20th-century Indian poets|Indian civil servants|Living people|People from Itanagar|People from Adi Community|Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English|21st-century Indian novelists|Adivasi women writers

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