Padmashri Dr. Haldhar Nag is a Sambalpuri poet and writer from Bargarh, Odisha, India. Popularly known as “Lok Kabi Ratna” (meaning “folk poet gem”). He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of India by Government of India in 2016. In 2019, He was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature by Sambalpur University

In the year 2020, translations of “Haldhar Nag Ka kavya- Sansar” into Hindi from Sambalpuri by renowned Hindi writer and translator Dinesh Kumar Mali were released and intensively discussed by participants from India and abroad during a two-day international seminar organized by Professor Jaishankar Babu, head of the Department of Hindi, Pondicherry University, and under the guidance of its vice-chancellor Professor Gurmeet Singh.

In 2021, under the joint editorship of Professor Jaishankar Babu and translator Dinesh Kumar Mali, the book “‘Haldhar ke Lok-sahitya par vimarsh'” and the book “Ramayan Prasangon par Haldhar ke Kavya aur yugin Vimarsh ” were translated by Dinesh Kumar Mali based on Ramayana contexts and published by Pandulipi Prakashan from New Delhi.