Akademi Awards for Kamleshwar, Prafulla Roy, Sara Joseph

Novelists Kamleshwar, Prafulla Roy, Sara Joseph, noted Tamil lyricist Vairamuthu, and critic K.V. Subbanna are among this year’s recipi...

Novelists Kamleshwar, Prafulla Roy, Sara Joseph, noted Tamil lyricist Vairamuthu, and critic K.V. Subbanna are among this year’s recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Awards announced here today.

The awards, representing 22 Indian languages, include six novels, five short stories, five poems and three essays, secretary of the Akademi K. Satchidanandan said.

While Kamleshwar gets the honour for his Kitne Pakistan, Bengali novelist Prafulla Roy was awarded for Krantikal, Bindu Bhatt for Gujarati novel Akhepatar, Malayali novelist Sara Joseph for Alahayude Penmakkal, T.V. Saradeshmukh for Marathi novel Dangora: Eka Nagaricha and Bindya Subba for Nepali novel Athah.

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Among the poets who received the awards were Bireswar Barua (Assamese), late Ashwini Magotra (Dogri), Santosh Mayamohan (Rajasthani), Bhaskaracharya Tripathi (Sanskrit) and Utpala Satynarayanacharya (Telugu), Sachitanandan said.

Contrary to the trend the world over where fiction is on the decline, 16 of this year’s Akademi honours went to prose, including five short stories, one play and three essays.

‘‘Fiction is picking up in India and it is dominating,’’ president of the Premier Literary Organisation Gopi Chand Nargang said.

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