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Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri won the 55th Jnanpith Award
The prestigious 55th Jnanpith Award has been won by the 92-year-old Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, a noted Indian poet-writer in the Malayalam language. He has won several literary accolades, some of his notable awards include the Padma Shri award in 2017, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1973. To date, he has published 45 books comprising of a ..
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Akkitham • Bharatiya Jnanpith • Constitution • Eighth Schedule • G. Sankara Kurup • Jnanpith Award • Malayalam • Padma Shri • Sahitya Akademi
Sahitya Akademi announces Bal Sahitya Puraskar & Yuva Puraskar 2019
Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters has selected a list of 22 writers as recipients of Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 23 writers for Yuva Puraskar for 2019. Key Highlights The Executive Board of Sahitya Akademi under the chairmanship of its President, Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar approved the selection of awardees. Selection Procedure: The awardees were ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2019
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Bal Sahitya Puraskar • Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2019 • Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar • Executive Board of Sahitya Akademi • Sahitya Akademi • Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2019 • Yuva Puraskar
Bal Sahitya Puraskar and Yuva Puraskar
The Sahitya Akademi has announced the Bal Sahitya Puraskar and Yuva Puraskar for the year 2019. Bal Sahitya Puraskar Bal Sahitya Puraskar is awarded to an author of the book which is an outstanding contribution to language and literature or Individual based on the overall contribution to Children Literature. Translated works are not eligible for ..
Topics: Bal Sahitya Puraskar • Children's literature • Language • Literature • Ministry of Culture • Sahitya Akademi • Yuva Puraskar
Nireeswaran wins as best novel of 2017 at Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards
The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards for the year 2017 have been announced on 23rd January 2019. In it, ‘Nireeswaran’ by V.J. James has been adjudged the best novel of 2017, while Aymanam John’s Ethara Characharangalude Charitra Pusthakam has secured the award for the best short story. Mindaprani, written by Veerankutty, is the best poetry. The ..
Topics: Aymanam John • Indian culture • Indian Literature • Kerala • Kerala Sahitya Akademi • Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards • Sahitya Akademi
National Education Day (NED) in India celebrated on 11 Nov
The National Education Day (NED) is celebrated every year in India on 11th of November to commemorate the birth anniversary of great freedom fighter, educationist & social reformer Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was also the independent India’s first education minister (served from 1947 to 1958). In 1912, he started a weekly journal in Urdu ..
Topics: Abul Kalam Azad • Azad • Bharat Ratna • India • Indian Council for Cultural Relations • Indian Muslims • Lalit Kala Akademi • Music education in India • Sahitya Akademi • Sangeet Natak Akademi
T P Ashoka wins 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kannada language
Noted Kannada critic T P Ashoka has bagged the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kannada language for his literary criticism work “Kathana Bharathi”. The annual Sahitya Akademi awards for 2017 were presented at a function in New Delhi on February 12, 2018. The awards were given in 24 languages. Excerpts are as follows: In Santhali, ..
Topics: Indian culture • Indian Literature • Sahitya Akademi