DMK’s counter to Sahitya Akademi: Stalin announces annual National Award for best literary works in Indian languages
The award also carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh , with the Tamil Nadu government being the patron.
The award also carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh , with the Tamil Nadu government being the patron.
Shukla had been admitted to the hospital on December 2 following respiratory complications and was on ventilator support when he died, family sources said.
Sahitya Akademi, India’s premier literary institution working under the Ministry of Culture, will organise its annual Festival of Letters at…
The two-day conference culminated with a panel discussion on the present status of Dogri novel with reference to prominent Indian languages.
The Akademi is inviting books from applicants aged below 35 on January 1, 2020. The last date to apply is August 30, 2019.
Twenty-two winners of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 23 recipients of the Yuva Puraskar have been announced as the winner by the Executive Board of the Akademi, under the chairmanship of its President, Chandrashekhar Kambar.
Setting her life as an example, Mahadevi Varma paved a path for hundreds of women coming after her. In 1979, she was made a fellow at Sahitya Akademi, becoming the first woman to be given this distinction. Her collection of poems, Yama received Gyanpeeth award in 1982. She was granted Padma Vibhushan in 1988.
It has originally been written by Tamil writer-poet Vairmuthu Ramasamy, who has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi Award. It was translated in Hindi by H. Balasubramaniam.
Sahitya Akademi awardee Bengali writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen has been declared winner of the Big Little Book Award this year…
The great Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla, popularly associated with his classic satire Raag Darbari, has found a muse some 12,000…
