NEW DELHI: Eminent creator Namita Gokhale, TMC MLA Bratya Basu and famous Punjabi author Khalid Hussian have been among the many 20 names introduced for the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 on Thursday.
The annual awards, given in 20 Indian languages, included seven books of poetry, two novels, 5 brief tales, two performs, one e-book every of biography, autobiography, criticism and epic poetry.
Whereas Gokhale gained the award for her 2016 historic epic novel “Issues to Go away Behind”, Basu and Hussain gained the awards for a play and assortment of brief tales “Sullan Da Salan”, respectively.
“Deeply honoured by the Sahitya Akademi Award for English, 2021 for my novel Issues To Go away Behind. Really feel a deep sense of delight and gratitude to belong to the colourful Indian literatures. #ManyLanguagesOneLiterature @sahityaakademi @PenguinIndia @JaipurLitFest,” tweeted Gokhale.
Deeply honoured by the Sahitya Akademi Award for English, 2021 for my novel Issues To Go away Behind. Really feel a deep sense of delight and gratitude to belong to the colourful Indian literatures. #ManyLanguagesOneLiterature @sahityaakademi @PenguinIndia @JaipurLitFest pic.twitter.com/RbNuJdtAXv
— Namita Gokhale (@NamitaGokhale_) December 30, 2021
The awards for Gujarati, Maithili, Manipuri and Urdu languages will probably be introduced at a later date, the Akademi stated in an announcement.
Mwdal Gahai (Bodo), Sanjiv Verenkar (Konkani), Hrushikesh Mallick (Odia), Meethesh Nirmohi (Rajasthani), Vindeshwariprasad Mishr ‘Vinay’ (Sanskrit), Arjun Chawia (Sindhi) and Gorati Venkannat (Telugu) have been named as winners for poetry.
Aside from Hussain, the others who gained the award for brief tales embrace Raj Rahi (Dogri), Kiran Gurav (Marathi), Niranjan Hansda (Santali) and Ambai (Tamil).
Different 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 and Chhabilal Upadhyaya (Nepali) for epic poetry.
“The books have been chosen on the premise of suggestions made by a jury of three members within the involved languages in accordance with the process laid down for the aim,” famous the Akademi.
“In line with the process, the Government Board declared the awards on the premise of unanimous alternatives made by the jurors or choice made on the premise of majority vote. The awards relate to books first revealed in the course of the 5 years instantly previous the yr of Award (between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2019),” the Akademi stated.
The award, which is able to embrace a casket containing an engraved copper plaque, a scarf and an quantity of Rs 1,00,000, will probably be offered on the award presentation perform which will probably be held at a later date.
