{"id":14994,"date":"2022-04-06T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:21:09","slug":"veteran-bengali-writer-wins-coveted-o-henry-award-for-1977-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=14994","title":{"rendered":"**  Veteran Bengali writer wins coveted O. Henry Award for 1977 story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sahitya Akademi awardee Amar Mitra wrote&nbsp;<em>Gaonburo<\/em>&nbsp;when he was 26 years old<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amar Mitra wrote the story back in 1977, when he was only 26; today, it has fetched him the 1919-founded O. Henry Award, whose past winners include William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Raymond Carver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award has reinforced Mr. Mitra\u2019s belief that the short story \u2014 titled&nbsp;<em>Gaonburo<\/em>&nbsp;in Bangla and&nbsp;<em>The Old Man of Kusumpur<\/em>&nbsp;in English \u2014 must have some \u201cinternal force\u201d for even the Western audience to find it relevant after 45 long years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has often been hailed, at various times, as a \u2018wonderful story\u2019. Maybe it really is a wonderful story. I don\u2019t remember the last time an Indian writing in an Indian language getting such a recognition,\u201d Mr. Mitra, recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and several other prestigious honours at home, told\u00a0<em>The Hindu<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">th\/west bengal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahitya Akademi awardee Amar Mitra wrote&nbsp;Gaonburo&nbsp;when he was 26 years old Amar Mitra wrote the story back in 1977, when he was only 26; today, it has fetched him the 1919-founded O. Henry Award, whose past winners include William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Raymond Carver. The award has reinforced Mr. Mitra\u2019s belief that the short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=14994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Veteran Bengali writer wins coveted O. Henry Award for 1977 story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14996,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions\/14996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}