Senior Congress leader and Former Union Minister Mr. M. Veerappa Moily will receive the Saraswati Samman 2014 for his Kannada poem ‘Ramayana Mahanveshanam’.
The award would make Mr. M. Veerappa Moily the second Kannada author to receive the honour after S. L. Bhyrappa (2010).
‘Ramayana Mahanveshanam’ was first published in 2007 in Kannada and later was translated into English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil. The poem explores the ‘Ramarajya’ or the true principle of the ‘ideal State’ from a secular and modern point of view.

About Saraswati Samman (सरस्वती सम्मान)

• Established: 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.
• Award carries: cash price of Rs 10 lakh, a citation and a plaque.
• It is annual award, awarded to persons for their outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any Indian language listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India.
• Eminent Hindi author Harivansh Rai Bachchan was the first recipient of this award for his autobiography in four volumes