K. K. (Kamalakanta) Mohapatra has written three collections of short stories, a novel, a book of non-fiction, and an autobiography. He has also translated into Odia selected stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Franz Kafka, as well as William Shakespeare’s King Lear, and collaborated with Leelawati Mohapatra and Paul St-Pierre on numerous works of translation from Odia into English.