SAHITYA AKADEMI ANNOUNCED ITS AWARDS FOR 2021
SAHITYA AKADEMI ANNOUNCED ITS AWARDS FOR 2021
The
Sahitya Akademi announced its awards for 2021 for literary works in 20
languages
In
a statement, the national academy of letters said seven books of poetry, five
of short stories, two plays, one each of biography, autobiography, criticism
and epic poetry had won the Sahitya Akademi Awards 2021.
Ms. Gokhale was awarded for her novel Things
to Leave Behind and Ms. Pujari for Iyat Ekhan Aaronya
Asil.
POETS IN LIST
Winners for poetry :
Mwdai Gahai (Bodo),
Sanjiv
Verenkar (Konkani),
Hrushikesh Mallick (Odia),
Meethesh
Nirmohi (Rajasthani),
Vindeshwariprasad
Mishr ‘Vinay’ (Sanskrit),
Arjun Chawla (Sindhi)
Gorati Venkanna (Telugu).
Books of short stories :
Raj
Rahi (Dogri)
Kiran Gurav (Marathi)
Khalid
Hussain (Punjabi)
Niranjan Hansda (Santali)
Biography :
D.S. Nagabhushana in Kannada,
Autobiography :
George
Onakkoor in Malayalam,
Criticism :
Wali Mohd. Aseer Kashtawari in Kashmiri
Book of epic poetry :
Chhabilal
Upadhyaya in Nepali
Two
plays
:
Bratya
Basu in Bengali
Daya Prakash Sinha in Hindi