Tag: Sahitya Akademi

Details eligibility criteria, application process, age limit are available on the official website of the Akademi, https://sahityaakademi.gov.in. 

Bhubaneswar: Making Odisha proud, Raja Anjana Kothapalli has won hearts of eminent litterateurs at Yuva Sahiti, the annual festival of letters organised by Sahitya Akademi at New Delhi. Anjana, a second year PGPM student was called to recite her poems at the annual fest held at Rabindra Bhawan in the national capital between February 12 […]

At the Chanakya BNR heritage hotel in Puri, on an October 2012 forenoon, I am sitting with fourteen Santali translators to finalize the anthology of forty post-independent Odia short stories in Santali translation. The men, led by Dr Damayanti Beshra, academic and Santali language expert, the Director of this particular translation project, have travelled three […]

New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, the national academy of letters, has opened entries for Yuva Puraskar 2020 for publishers and young Indian authors in all 24 languages it recognises. The Akademi is inviting books from applicants aged below 35 on January 1, 2020. The last date to apply is August 30, 2019. The Yuva Puraskar was […]

Mumbai: Acclaimed English-Marathi journalist and writer Kiran Nagarkar died here on Thursday after a brief illness, family sources said. He was 77. He had been admitted for treatment of brain haemorrhage to a private hospital where he breathed his last. Born in a middle-class Maharashtrian family, he was educated in Pune and Mumbai. Nagarkar’s first […]