[2] Gopinath's first novel, Mana Gahirara Chasa, was published in 1940, which was followed by Dadi Budha (1944), Paraja (1945) and Amrutara Santana (1947).

He wrote twenty-four novels, ten collections of short stories, three plays, two biographies, two volumes of critical essays, and five books on the languages of the Kandha, Gadaba and Saora tribes of Odisha.

He translated Tolstoy's War and Peace (Yuddh O Shanti), in three volumes, 1985–86), and Rabindranath Tagore's Jogajog, (1965), into Odia.

Amrutara Santana (1949), the first novel to receive the Central Sahitya Akademi Award (1955), is centered round the life of the Kandhas, another tribe in the southern parts of Odisha.

However, translators have attempted to convey the richness and complexity of the original texts to readers unfamiliar with Odia.

He won the first central Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955 for his novel, Amrutara Santana.

In 1981, the government of India conferred the Padma Bhushan on him in recognition of his distinguished contribution to literature.