Author Namita Gokhale TMC MLA Bratya Basu among 20 winners of Sahitya Akademi Award 2021
New Delhi Dec 30 PTI Eminent author Namita Gokhale TMC MLA Bratya Basu and noted Punjabi writer Khalid Hussian were among the 20 names announced for the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 on Thursday The annual awards given in 20 Indian languages included seven books of poetry two novels five short stories two plays one book each of biography autobiography criticism and epic poetry While Gokhale won the award for her 2016 historical epic novel Things to Leave Behind Basu and Hussain won the awards for a play and collection of short stories Sullan Da Salan respectively Deeply honoured by the Sahitya Akademi Award for English 2021 for my novel Things To Leave Behind Feel a deep sense of pride and gratitude to belong to the vibrant Indian literatures ManyLanguagesOneLiterature sahityaakademi PenguinIndia JaipurLitFest tweeted Gokhale The awards for Gujarati Maithili Manipuri and Urdu languages will be announced at a later date the Akademi said in a statement Mwdal Gahai Bodo Sanjiv Verenkar Konkani Hrushikesh Mallick Odia Meethesh Nirmohi Rajasthani Vindeshwariprasad Mishr Vinay Sanskrit Arjun Chawia Sindhi and Gorati Venkannat Telugu were named as winners for poetry Apart from Hussain the others who won the award for short stories include Raj Rahi Dogri Kiran Gurav Marathi Niranjan Hansda Santali and Ambai Tamil Other winners of the award are DS Nagabhushana Kannada for a biography George Onakkoor Malayalam for an autobiography Daya Prakash Sinha Hindi for a play Wali Mohd Aseer Kashtawari Kashmiri for criticism Anuradha Sarma Pujari Assamese for novel and Chhabilal Upadhyaya Nepali for epic poetry The books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by a jury of three members in the concerned languages in accordance with the procedure laid down for the purpose 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 between January 1 2015 and December 31 2019 the Akademi said The award which will include a casket containing an engraved copper plaque a shawl and an amount of Rs 100000 will be presented at the award presentation function which will be held at a later date PTI ASG MG AAR AAR
New Delhi Dec 30 PTI Eminent author Namita Gokhale TMC MLA Bratya Basu and noted Punjabi writer Khalid Hussian were among the 20 names announced for the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 on Thursday The annual awards given in 20 Indian languages included seven books of poetry two novels five short stories two plays one book each of biography autobiography criticism and epic poetry While Gokhale won the award for her 2016 historical epic novel Things to Leave Behind Basu and Hussain won the awards for a play and collection of short stories Sullan Da Salan respectively Deeply honoured by the Sahitya Akademi Award for English 2021 for my novel Things To Leave Behind Feel a deep sense of pride and gratitude to belong to the vibrant Indian literatures ManyLanguagesOneLiterature sahityaakademi PenguinIndia JaipurLitFest tweeted Gokhale The awards for Gujarati Maithili Manipuri and Urdu languages will be announced at a later date the Akademi said in a statement Mwdal Gahai Bodo Sanjiv Verenkar Konkani Hrushikesh Mallick Odia Meethesh Nirmohi Rajasthani Vindeshwariprasad Mishr Vinay Sanskrit Arjun Chawia Sindhi and Gorati Venkannat Telugu were named as winners for poetry Apart from Hussain the others who won the award for short stories include Raj Rahi Dogri Kiran Gurav Marathi Niranjan Hansda Santali and Ambai Tamil Other winners of the award are DS Nagabhushana Kannada for a biography George Onakkoor Malayalam for an autobiography Daya Prakash Sinha Hindi for a play Wali Mohd Aseer Kashtawari Kashmiri for criticism Anuradha Sarma Pujari Assamese for novel and Chhabilal Upadhyaya Nepali for epic poetry The books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by a jury of three members in the concerned languages in accordance with the procedure laid down for the purpose 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 between January 1 2015 and December 31 2019 the Akademi said The award which will include a casket containing an engraved copper plaque a shawl and an amount of Rs 100000 will be presented at the award presentation function which will be held at a later date PTI ASG MG AAR AAR
