Manu Dash Biography

Poet, editor, translator, publisher and curator of the annual Odisha Art & Literature Festival, Manu Dash (1956) has published more than 30 books in Odia and English. While in college, he joined the " Anam Writers' Movement" - an anti-establishment movement in Odia literature - shortly before the imposition of Emergency in India in 1975.
He is the founder of Dhauli Books, which won the prestigious " Publishing Next Industry Award for the Best Printed Book of the Year in Indian Languages" in 2018.

'A Brief History of Silence'(2019) is his acclaimed poetry collection.