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| name = Somai Kisku<br />
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| caption = Portrait of Somai Kisku<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|02|25}}<br />
| birth_place = Basantapur village, [[Barddhaman]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]] <br />
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| occupation = Ideologist, writer, and [[Santal]] Spiritualism<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| subject = [[Sari Dharam]]<br />
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'''Somai Kisku''' (born 1959) is an Indian writer in [[Santali language]].<ref> Somai Kisku {{cite web|url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/literaray-activities/kathasandhi.jsp |title=..:: SAHITYA : Kathasandhi :: }} </ref><br />
== Notable works==<br />
*''Tapal'', a quarterly Santali literary magazine, started publication under his supervision.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Agnihotri |first=Jaya |date=2011-05-13 |title=Samsung Tagore Awards: Right award in write times |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/samsung-tagore-awards-right-award-in-write-times/articleshow/8285164.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2024-04-28 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}</ref> This magazine carried the excellence of Santali literature.<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
*Kisku was recently honoured with the prestigious Tagore Literature Awards 2010, instituted by [[Samsung]] in collaboration with [[Sahitya Akademi]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite news |date=2011-05-10 |title=Somai Kisku honoured with prestigious Tagore awards |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/somai-kisku-honoured-with-prestigious-tagore-awards/articleshow/8215795.cms |access-date=2024-04-28 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> He received this award for his work ''Namalia'', first published in 2008.<ref> Somai Kisku Awarded with Prestigious Tagore Award {{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/somai-kisku-honoured-with-prestigious-tagore-awards/articleshow/8215795.cms |title=Somai Kisku honoured with prestigious Tagore awards |newspaper=The Times of India |date=10 May 2011 }}</ref> ''Namalia'' describes and depicts the lifestyle of the Santal people of 'Namal'. Based on facts, it tells the story of the migration of these people to the rich paddy-growing region of 'Namal' due to the construction of a dam on the Kansavati river.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-05-06 |title=Writers awarded for their contribution to Indian languages |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/writers-awarded-for-their-contribution-to-indian-languages/story-YTvndI6lUXMyPr5TnmKJGL.html |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref><br />
*He has also received Sharada Prasad Smriti Puraskar from Paschimbanga Santali Academy, Govt. Of West Bengal, India.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nijaswa |first=Sanwaddata |date=18 February 2021 |title=Somai kisku got rewarded for his contribution in saontali-literature |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/purulia-birbhum-bankura/somai-kisku-got-rewarded-for-his-contribution-in-saontali-literature/cid/1266449 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=Anandabazar Patrika |pages=1}}</ref><br />
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==Organisation==<br />
He formed Hooghly Zila Santali Sahitya Parisad in 1988, which is now known as Santali Sahitya Baisi. He has been conducting Santali Sahitya Baisi with honesty, devotion and competence from the beginning until now.<ref>{{Cite web|title= List of Literary Associations recognized by Sahitya Akademi |url= https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/literary-associations_April-2023.pdf |access-date=2024-06-22|publisher= Sahitya Akademi, Govt. of India}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Somai Kisku was born on 25th February 1959 at Basantapur, a small village, under the [[Purba Bardhaman district]] of [[West Bengal]] in the peasant family of Rasiklal Kisku and Fulmani Kisku. He is the third son of his parents among their ten children. He received his early education from Basantapur Gourmohan Primary School and then studied at Jamalpur Higher Secondary School. Later he was admitted to Boinchigram Bihari Lal High School in the ninth class and passed Higher Secondary in 1976. He obtained a bachelor degree from Haripal Vivekannda College, under the [[University of Burdwan]] in 1981. Thereafter he joined as an Inspector in the Department of West Bengal Essential Commodities Supply Corporation. He retired after completing his long service career in 2019.<br />
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In the late eighties, extreme poverty, illiteracy, daily life struggles and the experience of the real situation at that time led him to begin to write.<br />
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