Sahitya academy awards declared
What is the news :
- Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academyannounced honorary and book awards for various categories of Konkani literature for the year 2021.
- Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy has chosen three persons and three books for its honorary and book award.
About the winners:
- Those who have been selected for the honorary award are
- Nagesh Anwekar of Thumbebeedu, Yellapura taluk in Uttara Kannada (literature category),
- Dinesh Prabhu Kallotte of Karkala (art)
- Madhava Kharvi of Kundapura (folk).
- The award carries a ₹50,000 cash prize, a citation, a certificate, a garland, a shawl and a peta.
- Anwekar has translated many Yakshagana scripts from Kannada to Konkani, and had arranged Konkani ‘talamaddale’. He introduced Konkani in the ‘gamaka’ art form. In addition, he has written Konkani books.
- Kallotte has been active in Konkani theatre for three decades. Through his Pallavi Arts, he has been arranging drama training.
- Kharvi is instrumental in sustaining the folk forms of the Kharvi community. He has been training children in gumate dance, kolata and holi kathana.
- The books selected for the award are Larachem Geeth, a collection of poems by Jovin Vishwas Sequeira of Karkala, Rupaam Aani Rupakam, a Konkani article by Henry Ignatius Mendonca of Udupi, and Loveletters Vajiitalo Mahntaro, a collection of short stories by Gopalakrishna Pai.
- The book award carries a ₹25,000 cash prize, a citation and a certificate, a garland, a shawl and a peta.
- Minister for Kannada and Culture V. Sunil Kumar will present the awards at a function in the premises of Mahalasa Narayani temple in Kumta, Uttara Kannada district on March 27 in the presence of Kota Srinivas Poojary, minister in-charge of Uttara Kannada.
The Annual Sahitya Akademi Award
- Every year since its inception in 1954, the Sahitya Akademi Award prizes to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages recognised by the Akademi.
- The award amount, which was Rs.5,000 since inception, had been enhanced to Rs.10,000 from 1983, Rs.25,000 from 1988, Rs.40,000 from 2001, Rs.50,000 from 2003 and is now Rs.1,00,000 from 2009.
- The first Awards were given in 1955.
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