Saumitra Saxena
Born1976
Known forHindi poetry

Saumitra Saxena (Devanāgarī: सौमित्र सक्सेना, born 1976) is a United States based poet of Indian origin.[1][2] He is one of the widely read poets of Hindi language of present generation. His critically acclaimed first collection of poems in Hindi titled "Mitra"[3][4][5] meaning "a friend" received the Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award in 2008.[3][4][5][6] The book "Mitra" was included in the Library of Congress in 2010 as an important contemporary piece of South Asian literature[7] and is widely distributed across many major libraries of the world.[8] He currently lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife and a son.

References

  1. ↑ सौमित्र सक्सेना (Abhivyakti) (in Hindi), retrieved 2010-04-03
  2. ↑ Saumitra Saxena, retrieved 2010-04-03
  3. 1 2 "Sahitya Samachar".
  4. 1 2 Important Books of 2008, Yahoo! India (in Hindi)
  5. 1 2 Yahoo! India (in Hindi)
  6. ↑ Jnanpith catalogue 2010 (in Hindi)
  7. ↑ सौमित्र (2008), Library of Congress catalogue record 2008306185, ISBN 9788126314386, retrieved 2010-04-03
  8. ↑ Mitra (Book, 2008), WorldCat, OCLC 234260237
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