Report by Odisha Diary bureau, Bhubaneswar: Odisha Sahitya Akademi declares Atibadi Jagannath Das Award. Dr Dhaneswar Mohapatra and Shantanu Acharya win award for 2013, 2014 respectively.

For their significant contribution to Odia language and literature, four literary luminaries of the State honoured with the Atibadi Jagannath Das Award for four years -- 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 -- by the Odisha Sahitya Akademi here. The luminaries are Manoj Das, Mohapatra Nilamani Sahu, Dasarathi Das and Gaganendranath Das.

Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman is a literary award awarded by Odisha Sahitya Academy to an Odia language litterateur for lifetime contribution to Odia literature. This is the most respectable honor to any litterateur by the academy. This award is named after 15th century Odia poet Atibadi Jagannath Das who was also known as Atibadi (greatest). Started in 1993, the first award was given to Odia poet Radhamohan Gadnayak . So far, 20 awards have been awarded.