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| birth_place = [[Cuttack]], Odisha, India.
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| nationality = Indian
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| occupation = Poet
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'''Bibhu Padhi''' born '''Bibhu Prasad Padhi''' on 16 January 1951, is an Indian poet and writer. He writes in English and Oriya, and is a literary critic and translator.

== Early life ==
Padhi was born on 16 January 1951 in [[Cuttack]], [[Odisha]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Peepal Tree Press Author Info |url=http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=58 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302133251/http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=58 |archivedate=2012-03-02 }}</ref> He studied at [[Ravenshaw Collegiate School]] and Ranihat High School, Cuttack, then joined [[Ravenshaw College]], Cuttack, for a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in English literature in 1969 and [[Master of Arts]] in English literature in 1971. He received a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from Utkal University in 1991 in English literature.<ref>{{cite web|title=High Beam Author Info|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3401600559.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402210517/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3401600559.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-02}}</ref> He is married to Minakshi Padhi, a writer and academic.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu Padhi, Minakshi|title=Indian philosophy and religion : a reader's guide|date=1990|publisher=McFarland & Co.|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0899504469}}</ref>

== Career ==
Padhi joined the [[Ravenshaw College]] (now Ravneshaw University) Department of English in 1974 and taught there until 1981 and later from 1985 to 1992. He was also Counsellor for the Odisha branch of [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]] from 1986 to 1990. He also taught at SCS college Puri-on-Sea.<ref>{{cite web|title=D.K.Print World Author Info|url=http://www.dkprintworld.com/abouttheauthor.php|access-date=22 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524065402/http://www.dkprintworld.com/abouttheauthor.php|archive-date=24 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He has 11 volumes of poems written in English. His poems featured in the anthology, ''[[The Dance of the Peacock]]: An Anthology of English Poetry from India'',<ref name=brook>{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Richard|title=The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|accessdate=5 January 2015|issue=current|publisher=Hidden Brook Press, Canada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929050126/http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|archive-date=29 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> featuring 151 Indian English poets, edited by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press,<ref name=press>{{cite web|last1=Press|first1=Hidden Brook|title=Hidden Brook Press|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com|publisher=Hidden Brook Press|accessdate=5 January 2015}}</ref> [[Canada]]. <ref>{{cite book|last1=Prasad|first1=editors, U.S. Rukhaiyar, Amar Nath|title=Studies in Indian poetry in English|date=2002|publisher=Sarup & Sons|location=New Delhi|isbn=8176252654|page=192|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7aLEGhrJNkQC&q=bibhu+padhi&pg=PA191|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref><ref> http://hdl.handle.net/10603/118973</ref>

== Publications==
'''Poetry'''
*''Going to the Temple'' (New Delhi: Indus, 1988; rpt. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2008)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu Prasad|title=Going to the Temple|date=2013|publisher=Authorspress|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-8172734039}}</ref>
*''A Wound Elsewhere'' (New Delhi: Rupa, 1992)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=A wound Elsewhere|date=1992|publisher=Rupa & Co|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-8171670888}}</ref>
*''Lines From A Legend'' (Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 1993)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=Lines from a Legend|date=1993|publisher=Peepal Tree Press Ltd|location=Leeds, UK|isbn=978-0948833502}}</ref>
*''Painting the House'' (Hyderabad, India: Orient Longman, 1999)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=Painting the house : poems|date=1999|publisher=Orient Blackswan|location=Hyderabad|isbn=9788125015437|pages=79}}</ref>
*''Games the Heart Must Play'': a trilogy in of love poems(Bhubaneshwar,: Pen & Ink, 2003)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sen|first1=Sudeep|title=Three Journeys|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2004/12/05/stories/2004120500140200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021014307/https://www.thehindu.com/lr/2004/12/05/stories/2004120500140200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 October 2018|accessdate=22 September 2014|agency=The Literary Review|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=5 December 2004}}</ref>
*''Living With Lorenzo'': Poems on D H Lawrence (Cuttack: Peacock Books, 2003) [chapbook]
*''Choosing A Place'' (New Delhi: Gnosis/Authorspress, 2011)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=Choosing a place|date=2009|publisher=Authorpress|location=Delhi|isbn=978-8172734886|pages=88}}</ref>
*''Migratory Days'' (New Delhi: Authorspress, 2011)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=Migratory Days: A Travel Diary in Verse|date=2013|publisher=AuthorsPress|location=Delhi|isbn=978-9381030127|pages=86}}</ref>
*''Brief Seasons: 60 love songs'', (Bhubaneswar, Timepass, 2013)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=Brief Seasons|date=2013|publisher=Timepass Publications|location=Bhubaneshwar}}</ref>
*''Magic Ritual'' (New Delhi: Authorspress, 2014)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=Magic Ritual|date=2014|publisher=Authorspress|location=New Delhi}}</ref>
* Midnight Diary (New Delhi: Authorspress, 2015) <ref>https://www.amazon.in/Midnight-Diary-Bibhu-Padhi/dp/9352070127</ref>
* A Friendship With Time (Kolkata: Hornbill Press, 2021) <ref>https://www.amazon.in/Friendship-Time-Buddhaditya-Padhi/dp/9387885801/</ref>

'''Other works'''
*''D H Lawrence: Modes of Fictional Style''(Albany, NY, USA: Whitston, 1989)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu|title=D.H. Lawrence : modes of fictional style|date=1989|publisher=Whitston|location=Troy, N.Y.|isbn=978-0878753543}}</ref>
*''Indian Philosophy and Religion'': A Reader’s Guide (Jefferson, NC, USA & London, England: McFarland, 1990; rpt. New Delhi: D K Printworld, 1999; 2nd rpt. DK Printworld, 2004)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi|first1=Bibhu Padhi, Minakshi|title=Indian philosophy and religion : a reader's guide|date=1990|publisher=McFarland & Co.|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=9780899504469}}</ref> [with Minakshi Padhi]

'''Poetic translations'''
*''A Morning of Rains and Other Poems'': Selected Poems of [[Sitakant Mahapatra]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi]|first1=Sitakant Mahapatra ; [translated from Oriya by Bibhu|title=A Morning of rain and other poems|date=1992|publisher=Vikas Pub. House|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780706959697}}</ref> (New Delhi: Vikas, 1990) [Mahapatra is a recipient of India’s highest literary award, the "Bharatiya Gyanapith"].
*''Memories, Legends, and The Goddess'': Selected Poems of Bibek Jena, ([[Bhubaneswar]], 2013)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Verma|first1=Anupam Kant|title=Shadows at Midnight|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/7ulgmMHZAH2QazPy6BfBOO/Shadows-at-midnight.html|accessdate=22 September 2014|agency=Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Live Mint|date=20 April 2012}}</ref>
*''Parallel Speech: An Anthology of Fifteen Younger Contemporary Oriya Poets''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Padhi and Padhi|first1=Minakshi and Bibhu|title=Parallel Speech (Fifteen Younger Contemporary Oriya Poets)|date=2014|publisher=Kaveri Books|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-8172738754}}</ref> (New Delhi: Authorspress)

== See also ==
* [[Indian English Literature]]
* [[Sitakant Mahapatra]]
* [[List of Indian poets]]

==References==
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Jaydeep Sarangi Interview with Bibhu Padhi,JSL,JNU Journal,Spring 2006.Link:https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222839/http://www.jnu.ac.in/SLLCS/JSL%20V.htm
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