Sangam city’s Neelum Saran Gour bags Sahitya Akademi award 2023
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Sangam city’s Neelum Saran Gour bags Sahitya Akademi award 2023

Hindustan Times  

Well known English writer from Sangam city and a former professor in the English department of Allahabad University Neelum Saran Gour has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award-2023 for her novel ‘Requiem in Raga Janki’. Neelum Saran Gour The winners of the 2023 Sahitya Akademi awards were announced late on Wednesday evening. The awards are given to writers in 24 Indian languages, including translations and this year, Neelum Saran Gour’s Requiem in Raga Janki won the award in the English language category. Her most recent novel, ‘Requiem In Raga Janki’, based on the life of the famous Allahabad singer, Janki Bai, won the coveted Hindu Fiction Prize for 2018.

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Telugu writer Penugonda Lakshminarayana receives Central Sahitya Akademi award
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Telugu writer Penugonda Lakshminarayana receives Central Sahitya Akademi award

Deccan Chronicle  

Guntur: Renowned writer Penugonda Lakshminarayana has been awarded the prestigious Central Sahitya Akademi Award. On Wednesday, the Sahitya Akademi announced the winners of the Central Sahitya Akademi Awards for 21 Indian languages. A jury comprising eminent figures from various Indian languages meticulously evaluated numerous books and recommended the winners for this prestigious award. The Sahitya Akademi Executive Board, chaired by …

Sahitya Akademi releases winners’ list
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Sahitya Akademi releases winners’ list

Hindustan Times  

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Sahitya Akademi Awards announced, Anuradha Roy among 23 winners

The Hindu  

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Vetrimaaran to direct Imayam’s Sahitya Akademi-winning novel Sellatha Panam
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Vetrimaaran to direct Imayam’s Sahitya Akademi-winning novel Sellatha Panam

The Hindu  

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Namita Gokhale on winning Sahitya Akademi Award for Things to Leave Behind: ‘I used to carry it everywhere like a piece of knitting’
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Namita Gokhale on winning Sahitya Akademi Award for Things to Leave Behind: ‘I used to carry it everywhere like a piece of knitting’

Firstpost  

“This festival has always had a mysterious life of its own, and it is literally taking me for a ride along with it. Acclaimed writer, editor, publisher, and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival [JLF>, Namita Gokhale was given the Sahitya Akademi Award for her 2016 novel Things to Leave Behind in Delhi on Friday. Hours before the scheduled Sahitya …

Sahitya Akademi announces awards in 20 languages
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Sahitya Akademi announces awards in 20 languages

The Hindu  

The Sahitya Akademi on Thursday announced its awards for 2021 for literary works in 20 languages, including novels in Assamese and English by Anuradha Sarma Pujari and Namita Gokhale respectively. In a statement, the national academy of letters said seven books of poetry, five of short stories, two plays, one each of biography, autobiography, criticism and epic poetry had won …

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