Manu Dash is a bilingual poet, editor, translator, publisher and festival director. An author of almost 30 books, Dash joined the Anam Writers Movement, an anti-establishment movement in Odia literature, shortly before the imposition of Emergency in India in 1975. He is the founder of Dhauli Books, which won the prestigious Publishing Next Industry Award for Best Printed Book of the Year (Indian Languages) in 2018. Currently, he is editing anām, an international journal for literature.
His poems have been translated and published into Assamese, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu. Two poetry collections – Kala Harina, A Brief History of Silence – have been translated and published into German and Slovene language.
