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Himansu S. Mohapatra is a literary critic and translator. He has produced, with Paul St-Pierre, an edited volume of Odia stories in English translation, entitled The Other Side of Reason (2008), and, two fiction translations: Basanti: Writing the New Woman (2019)-it is the first woman-oriented Odia novel written by nine authors in 1931-and Letters to Jorina (2021), an epistolary novella by Ganeswar Mishra. A selection of his literary journalism has been published as Model of the Middle (2014). He studied at Sambalpur Univerisity, Odisha and University of East Anglia, Norwich, and taught English at Berhampur University and Utkal University, Odisha.