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{{Short description|Odia writer}}
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| birth_name = Jitendra Narayan Dash
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1953|08|03}}
| birth_place = [[Khandapada]], [[Nayagarh district]], [[Odisha]]
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| occupation = Lecturer
| language = [[Odia language|Odia]]
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| alma_mater = [[Utkal University]]
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| spouse = Jayanti Panda
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| awards = Sahitya akademi Bal award
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'''Jitendra Narayan Dash''' (birth 3 August 1953),<ref>{{cite web |title=PROFORMA - JNDASH |url=http://www.scscollege.nic.in/lecturerbiodata/JNDASH.pdf |publisher=scscollege.nic.in |accessdate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503022511/http://www.scscollege.nic.in/lecturerbiodata/JNDASH.pdf |archive-date=3 May 2013 }}</ref> who writes under the pseudonym of '''Dash Benhur''' is a Sahitya Akademi award winner writer from Odisha. He was born in [[Khandapada]] in [[Nayagarh district]], [[Odisha]].<ref name="Heyman et al 2007">{{cite book|author=Michael Heyman, Sumanyu Satapthy, & Anushka Ravishankar, Eds.|title=The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcur6s36gnEC&pg=PA213|year=2007|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-310086-7|pages=213–}}</ref>
He retired as the Principal of [[Samanta Chandra Sekhara College]], Puri. He is a founder member of Aama Odisha.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.aamaodisha.org.in/pratistha-sadasya.php |title = Welcome to Aama Odisha}}</ref>

== Works ==
He is the author of more than 100 books, including 15 collections of short-stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://incredibleorissa.com/dash-benhur-kendra-sahitya-akademi-award/|title=Dash Benhur - Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Bal Sahitya|work=IncredibleOrissa|accessdate=10 June 2016|date=23 August 2014}}</ref>

===Children's literature===
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* The Puduga king & other stories, 2013
* Unforgettable Stories, 2007
* A Basket of Stories (Stories), 2005
* The Story of Maita (Novel), 2005
* Manu and the Sparrow (Story), 2001
* Play Fun with Riddles (Riddles), 2001
* My Pet Poetry Book (Poem), 2001
* All Time Rhymes for Children, 2001
* Rhymes for Little Reema, 2001
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===Short stories===
* Kaanduri and Other Stories, 2015
* Gandhi Tales from Odisha, 2013
* Alms and other stories, 2008
* The Tribute and other stories, 2006
* The Drawing and other stories, 1987

===Novel===
* Pagadi purusha,2 015

== Awards ==
* Sahitya Akademi Bal Puraskar, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/bal%20sahitya%20samman_suchi.jsp|title=SAHITYA : Akademi Awards|publisher=|accessdate=10 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630000355/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/bal%20sahitya%20samman_suchi.jsp|archive-date=30 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Odisha writer Dash Benhur gets Central Sahitya Akademi award |date=22 August 2014|url=http://odishasuntimes.com/81286/odisha-writer-dash-benhur-gets-central-sahitya-akademi-award/|publisher=OdishaSunTimes|accessdate=22 August 2014}}</ref>
* Odisha Vigyan Academy Popular Science-writer award, 1999 <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museindia.com/authprofile.asp?id=1688 |title=Welcome to Muse India |website=www.museindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305163855/http://www.museindia.com/authprofile.asp?id=1688 |archive-date=2016-03-05}} </ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://odishan.com/?p=7613 |title = ଗୋଟିଏ ଦିନରେ ଦାଶ ବେନହୁରଙ୍କ ୧୨ ଟି ପୁସ୍ତକ ଲୋକାର୍ପିତ}}</ref>
* NCERT Prize for Children's Literature,1989
* Odisha Sahitya Academy award, 1987<ref>{{cite web|url=http://odishasahityaakademi.org/sahitya-award5.php|title=ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସାହିତ୍ୟ ଏକାଡେମୀ ପୁରସ୍କୃତ ପୁସ୍ତକ ଓ ଲେଖକ|publisher=Odisha Sahitya Akademi|accessdate=12 June 2016}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Utkal University alumni]]
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