Whose poetry is steeped in the Orissa scene, with the Jagannatha temple at Puri recurring?
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Correct answer: A. Jayanta Mahapatra
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Mahapatra (1928–2023) was the first Indian English poet to win the Sahitya Akademi Award (Relationship, 1981).
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