Koraput has a great literary tradition. From Gopinath Mohanty to Pratibha Ray, many celebrated authors have lived here to experience the tribal life and later delivered great fictions. Gopinath Mohanty's ‘Paraja’ and ‘Amrutara Santana’ (Dynasty of Immortals) are based on the life of Koraput tribals and both the books are highly acclaimed in international literary arena, opined authors during the Koraput literary Festival (KlF).

Speakers participating in the post inaugural session (session-2) of the festival said that Koraput always has attracted authors and nature lovers. Here both beauty and pain could be seen. And this place has inspired hundreds of fiction and poetry in Odia as well as other languages.

This session "Odia literature and Koraput", moderated by poet Rabi Satpathy, witnessed a vivid debate by authors from undivided Koraput district like Dr Pradip Kumar Mishra, Dr Ashok Kumar Tripathy, Dr Rajendra Padhi, Jaladhar Swain, Uday Chandra Mishra and Gobardhan Panda.

The third session was a debate on ‘Contemporary Odia Fiction’. The session was moderated by author Ashish Kumar Gadanayak while Dr Narayan Panda, Sadanand Tripathy, Dr Ajay Swain, Aditeswar Mishra and Pradip Nayak participated in the discussion.

The fourth session was ‘Contemporary Odia Poetry’ moderated by poet Durga Prasad Panda. Dr Aparna Mohanty, Biraja Bal, Sushant Nayak, Runu Mohanty, Amiya Ranjan Mohapatra and Dr Preetidhara Samal participated the discussion.

The fifth session was for poetry recitation compered by poet Meena Swain and Jhansi Singh. More than 40 poets recited their poems during the session.