{{short description|American poet}}

{{Infobox person | name = Saumitra Saxena | image = Saumitra Saxena.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1976 | birth_place = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = | known_for = Hindi poetry }}

'''Saumitra Saxena''' (Devanāgarī: {{lang|hi|'''सौमित्र सक्सेना'''}}, born 1976) is a United States based poet of Indian origin.<ref>{{Citation | title = सौमित्र सक्सेना (Abhivyakti) |language=Hindi | accessdate = 2010-04-03 | url = http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/lekhak/s/saumitra_saxena.htm }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | title = Saumitra Saxena | accessdate = 2010-04-03 | url = http://www.anubhuti-hindi.org/dishantar/s/saumitra_saxena/index.htm }}</ref> He is one of the widely read poets of Hindi language of present generation. His critically acclaimed first collection of poems in Hindi titled "Mitra"<ref name=three>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindinest.com/ss/ss14.htm|title=Sahitya Samachar}}</ref><ref name=four>[http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/sahitya/article/index.php?page=book&category=99&articleid=10000131 Important Books of 2008], Yahoo! India (in Hindi)</ref><ref name=five>[http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/sahitya/article/index.php?page=book&category=99&articleid=1000097 Yahoo! India] (in Hindi)</ref> meaning "a friend" received the Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award in 2008.<ref name=three/><ref name=four/><ref name=five/><ref>[http://jnanpith.net/pdfs/Catalogue-Jan2010.pdf Jnanpith catalogue 2010] (in Hindi)</ref> The book "Mitra" was included in the Library of Congress in 2010 as an important contemporary piece of South Asian literature<ref>{{Citation | title = Library of Congress catalogue record 2008306185 | isbn = 9788126314386 | accessdate = 2010-04-03 | url = http://lccn.loc.gov/2008306185 | author1 = सौमित्र | year = 2008 }}</ref> and is widely distributed across many major libraries of the world.<ref>{{Citation | title = Mitra (Book, 2008) |publisher= WorldCat |oclc= 234260237 }}</ref> He currently lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife and a son.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

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==External links== *[http://jnanpith.net/ Bharatiya Jnanpith]

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saxena, Saumitra}} Category:American male poets Category:Living people Category:1976 births Category:21st-century American poets Category:21st-century American male writers