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'''Godabarish Mohapatra''' ({{lang-or|ଗୋଦାବରୀଶ ମହାପାତ୍ର}}; 1 October 1898 &ndash; 25 November 1965) was an eminent story writer and poet in [[Odia literature]].<ref name="George1992">{{cite book|author=K. M. George|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&pg=PA910|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-324-0|pages=910–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cuttack, One Thousand Years|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=JRVuAAAAMAAJ&dq=1898-1965|year=1990|publisher=Cuttack City Millennium Celebrations Committee, The Universe}}</ref> He was also a journalist of [[Odisha]], best known as the editor of "Niankhunta", a monthly criticism magazine, and "Tuan Tuin", a monthly children's magazine.<ref>{{cite book|title=Orissa Review|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=eVhQAQAAMAAJ&dq=nian+khunta|year=2002|publisher=Published and issued by Home (Public Relations) Department, Government of Orissa}}</ref><ref name="Mohanty2009">{{cite book|author=Jagannath Mohanty|title=Encyclopaedia of Education, Culture and Children's Literature: v. 4. Children's literature and education|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zfLATnA1IAMC&pg=PA72&dq=godabarish%20mohapatra&f|year=2009|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|isbn=978-81-8450-151-3|pages=72–}}</ref>

He was born on 1 October 1898 at Kumarang near [[Banapur]] in Odisha. He completed his schooling in 1921 at the famous [[Satyabadi Bana Bidyalaya]] under [[Godabarish Mishra]]'s supervision and later his higher education at [[Ravenshaw University]], Cuttack. In 1930 Pandit Godabarish Mishra established a high school at Banapur. Mohapatra was the first secretary of the managing committee as well as a teacher at the beginning of the school.<ref name="Internet Archive 2015">{{cite web | title=Godabarish Mohapatra : Acharya Brundaban Chandra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | website=Internet Archive | date=2015-06-19 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.5401 | access-date=2021-06-05}}</ref><ref name="Mohanty2006">{{cite book|author=Jatindra Mohan Mohanty|title=History of Oriya Literature|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HkMLAQAAMAAJ&dq=niakhunta+Godabaris+1938|year=2006|publisher=Vidya|isbn=978-81-903438-0-0}}</ref>

Godabarish Mohapatra's main concern was with contemporary politics about which he wrote, mostly in poetry, in great detail and at times with pungent bitter satire. He founded and edited a journal called ''Niankhunta'' ("The Fire-fling") which ran for about 27 years (1938-1964) and quickly got itself established as the most important Odia journal of humour and politics. In 1957 he brought out a children's periodical, ''Tuan Tuin''. Although most of the content was stories and poems, special emphasis was given to the promotion of social consciousness and scientific attitude. Some of his poetical volumes that may be mentioned in this context are "He mora Kalama" (1951),  "Handishalare Biplaba" (1952), "Kanta O Phula" (1958),  "Banka O Sidha", "Mo Khelasahi" (1958), "Kunira Hati" (1959), "Ki Katha" (1961) and "Desha Bidesha Upakatha" (1962), altogether containing hundreds of short poems. His two poetry anthologies - i.e., "Kanta O Phula" and "Utha Kankala" - were given the [[Odisha Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1959 and 1962 respectively. He died on 25 November 1965. A year after his death, his poetical work "Banka O Sidha" received the [[Sahitya Academy Award|Central Sahitya Academy Award]].<ref name="Datta1988">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1614&dq=godabarish%20Mahapatra&f|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|pages=1614–}}</ref>