Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania, among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2020
Politician-writer M Veerappa Moily, poet Arundhathi Subramaniam are among 20 writers who can be bestowed with the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. The nationwide academy of letters introduced the names on Friday in the course of the opening day of its annual ‘Festival of Letters’ occasion. While Subramaniam received the award for her poetry assortment “When God is a Traveller” in English, Moily was named for his epic poetry titled “Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam” in Kannada.
The listing contains seven books of poetry, 4 novels, 5 quick tales, two performs, and one every of memoirs and epic poetry in 20 Indian languages.
The awards for Malayalam, Nepali, Odia and Rajasthani languages can be introduced at a later date, the Akademi mentioned in a press release.
Apart from Subramaniam, the others who received the award in poetry embrace Harish Meenakshi (Gujarati), Anamika (Hindi), RS Bhaskar (Konkani), Irungbam Deven (Manipuri), Rupchand Hansda (Santali), and Nikhileswar (Telugu).
Nanda Khare (Marathi), Maheshchandra Sharma Gautam (Sanskrit), Imaiyam (Tamil) and Sri Hussain-ul-Haque have been named as winners for his or her novels.
Apurba Kumar Saikia (Assamese), (late) Dharanidhar Owari (Bodo), (late) Hiday Koul Bharti (Kashmiri), Kamakant Jha (Maithili) and Gurdev Singh Rupana (Punjab) have acquired the award for brief tales.
The Akademi has named Gian Singh (Dogri) and Jetho Lalwani (Sindhi) the winners for his or her performs, whereas Shankar (Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay) in (Bengali) acquired the award for memoir.
“The books have been chosen on the idea of suggestions made by a jury of three members within the involved languages in accordance with the process laid down for the aim.
“According to the procedure, the Executive Board declared the Awards on the basis of unanimous selections made by the jurors or selection made on the basis of majority vote. The awards relate to books first published during the five years immediately preceding the year of award (ie. between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018),” the Akademi mentioned.
The award, which can embrace a casket containing an engraved copper plaque, a scarf and an quantity of Rs 1,00,000, can be introduced on the award presentation operate, which can be held at a later date.Â
