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'''Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh''' [[Imphal|l]] was a poet, essayist, [[prose]]-writer and [[novelist]]. He was born in 1895 in Uripok Sorbon Thingen leikai, [[Imphal]].He was influenced by [[Sanskrit]] tradition and is regarded as one of the best-known writers of modern [[Meitei literature]].<ref name="Encyclopedia"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Parrat |first=John |date=2005 |title=Wounded Land: Politics and Identity in Modern Manipur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BhZPx3n6yYC&q=Khwairakpam+Chaoba&pg=PA29 |publisher=Mittal Publications |page=29 |isbn=8183240534 |access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref> He founded the Manipuri Sahitya Sammelini of Meitei literature along with [[Meitei literature|Dr. Lamabam Kamal Singh]], [[Hijam Irabot]] and [[Samurou#Achievements|Hijam Anganghal]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
He presented the first [[historical novel]] in Meitei – Lavangalata which is considered to be an outstanding work. This is perhaps one of the greatest novels in Meitei literature. His other prose works are Wakhalgi Ichen (Thought Current), Wakhal (Thought), Phidam (Ideal), Kannaba Wa (Useful Words) and Chhatra Macha (Student). He also wrote incomplete works ''Madhu Malati'' and ''Naba-Malika''<ref>{{cite book |date=2000 |title=L. Kamal Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouEZEOAusv4C&q=Khwairakpam+Chaoba&pg=PA52 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |page=12 |isbn=8126008563 |access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref> His published work includes:<br />
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* ''Chhatra Macha'', 1923<br />
* ''Kannaba Wa'', 1924<br />
* ''Phidam''<br />
* ''Wakhal''<br />
* ''Wakhalgi Ichen''<br />
* ''Thainagi Leirang'', Poetry, 1933<br />
* ''Lavangalata'', Novel, 1937<br />
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==Recognition and reception==<br />
He was awarded the Sahitya Ratna by the [[Manipur]] Sahitya Parishad in 1948.<ref name=Khwairakpam>{{Cite web|url=http://www.burningvoices.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:khwairakpam-chaoba-singh&catid=38:profiles&Itemid=63 |title=Khwairakpam Chaoba Singh |author=Burningvoices |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104646/http://www.burningvoices.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58%3Akhwairakpam-chaoba-singh&catid=38%3Aprofiles&Itemid=63 |archive-date=2011-07-08 }}</ref> Fellow author and poet Elangbam Dinamani Singh included Chaoba in his one of his books about criticism of poets. In Amaresh Datta's ''Encyclopedia of Indian Literature, Volume 1'', he says of Chaoba: "By use of common language and very homely image, [he] could set a good example of elegy in Meitei through this single poem. In fact, many of the poems of [his] contain elegiac elements and atmosphere, as he looks upon the human life from a melancholic and tragic standpoint. This feeling comes to him from his love of everything Manipuri, the flora and fauna, the disintegrated tradition, which was once the beacon light and his deep involvement with the lot of man in his life. Therefore, when he writes about anything, an elegiac feeling pervades his mind and as a result, his expression becomes melancholic and elegiac in nature."<ref name="Encyclopedia">{{cite book |last=Datta |first=Amaresh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&q=Khwairakpam+Chaoba&pg=PA1153 |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Literature Volume 1 |date=1988 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |isbn=8126011947 |pages=1145–1153 |access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref><br />
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