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Who is the first Indian poet to bag Sahitya Academy Award for writing in English (Poetry)?
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Jayant Mahapatra
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Jayanta Mahapatra, an eminent Indian English poet from Odisha, was the first poet to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award for English poetry in 1981 for his work 'Relationship'. He is a pioneering figure in Indian English literature, known for his distinctive poetic voice that blends Indian sensibility with modernist techniques. Option B has a misspelling - 'Sarthak' should be 'Jayanta'.