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'''Jatindra Kumar Nayak''' is an [[India]]n translator, literary critic, columnist,<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110418/jsp/orissa/story_13867623.jsp The Telegraph Column]</ref> editor and academic from [[Odisha]]. Nayak has translated several works of [[Odia literature]] into English, including ''Yantrarudha'', a novel by [[Chandrasekhar Rath]], as 'Astride the Wheel'.<ref>[http://www.translatedfiction.org.uk/show/review/Astride-the-Wheel Book Review]</ref> ''Astride the Wheel'' for which he received the 2004 [[Hutch Crossword Book Award]] for Indian Language Fiction Translation. He also won the Katha Translation Award for his English rendering of Tarun Kanti Mishra's short story as ''The Descent''.<ref>[http://ndtv.com/reading-room/kathatranslation.asp?part=2 Katha Translation Award]</ref> Nayak is a co-translator of the English translation of Odia novel ''Chha Mana Atha Guntha'' by [[Fakir Mohan Senapati]]. The English translation of the book was first published in the USA under the title ''Six Acres and a Third''. He has also translated into English the ''Atma Jibana Charita'', the autobiography of Fakir Mohan Senapati, as ''Story of My Life''. His other notable translations in English include the translation of Jagannath Prasad Das's ''Desha Kala Patra'' into ''A Time Elsewhere''.<ref>[http://welcomeorissa.com/English+translation+of+Oriya+literature-orissa_news-25395-11-04-2010.html Release of 'A Times Elsewhere']</ref> Rupantar, an organisation that he founded in [[Bhubaneswar]] publishes translation of Odia books in English.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Nayak studied in [[Ravenshaw College]] and [[University of Oxford]]. He teaches English literature in [[Utkal University]].<br />
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