Oriya

Oriya language

Oriya , officially Odia from November, 2011, is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Orissa and West Bengal...

 children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

has a long history. Its roots are in Moukhika Sishu Sahitya, which is a part of the Loka Sahitya meant for the children. As its development started after modern education was implemented, Oriya children's literature is divided in two categories, Oriya Moukhika children's literature and Oriya written children's literature.

See also

• List of Oriya Writers#Oriya Children's writers Research Scholars of Oriya Children's Literature27s Literature& Oriya Children'sLiterature Samarendranath Mahapatra and Dr. Basanta Kishore Sahoo
• Basanta Kishore Sahoo
  Basanta Kishore Sahoo
  Basanta Kishore Sahoo is a research scholar and a children's writer who published his Ph.D thesis on the topic of "Oriya Moukhika Shisu Sahitya." He is an Indian children's writer and research scholar who created his own field...
  
  
• Bidyadhar Panda
• Birendra Samantray
• Niranjan Behera
• Prakash chandra Dash
• Sairindhree Sahoo
• Debandra Choudhury
• Harihar Sukla
• Arun Mohanty
• Raju Padhiary
• Maheswar Mohanty
• Gopinath Dandasena
• Minaketan Baralebadia
• Srinivas Behera
• Dr. Ramesh Patri
• Prakash Mangaraj