Sahitya Academy Awards For 2015 Announced
- The prestigious Sahitya Academy Awards for 2015 have been announced.
- The Playwright and novelist Cyrus Mistry's English novel "Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer" and KR Meera's "Aarachar" in Malayalam are among the works that have won the award.
- The other two novelists who have won the award are
- Jaswinder Singh in Punjabi
- Madhu Acharya 'Ashawadi' in Rajasthani.
- 6 books each of short stories and poetry have been chosen for this year's award.
- Poets Honoured are:
- Brajendra Kumar Brahma in Bodo
- Dhian Singh in Dogri,
- Ramdarash Mishra in Hindi,
- K.V. Tirumalesh in Kannada,
- Kshetri Rajan in Manipuri and
- Ram Shankar Awasthi in Sanskrit.
- Six writers awarded for their short stories are:
- Kula Saikia in Assamese,
- Man Mohan Jha in Maithili,
- Gupta Pradhan in Nepali,
- Bibhuti Pattanaik in Odia,
- Maya Rahi in Sindhi and
- Volga in Telugu.
- Other categories: Two books each of essays, criticism and plays and one of the memoirs have won.
- Rasik Shah (Gujarati) and A.Madhavan (Tamil) have also been awarded for their essays.
- Bhasha Samman to writer and scholar Shrikant Bahulkar has also been announced.
- The award in Bengali will be announced later. The award will be presented to the writers at a function on 16th February next year.
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