Sahitya Akademi today announced its annual Awards in 24 languages. Seven books of poetry, six novels, six short stories, three of literary criticism and two of essays have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2018.
Those who have won the award for their collection of poetry:
Sananta Tanti in Assamese
Paresh Narendra Kamat in Konkani
S Ramesan Nair in Malayalam
Dr Rama Kant Shukla in Sanskrit.
Writers who won the awards for short stories:
Sanjib Chattopadhyay in Bengali
Mushtaq Ahmed Mushtaq in Kashmiri
Prof Bina Thakur in Maithili.
Writes who won the award for novel category:
Inderjeet Kesar in Dogri
Anees Salim in English
Chitra Mudgal in Hindi
The Akademi said in a press release that the awards will be presented at a roadshow function to be held on 29th January next year at New Delhi during the Festival of Letters to the organised by Sahitya Akademi.
An eminent short-story writer, Mushtaq Ahmad Mushtaq, bagged the Award for his collection of short stories AAKH. An Indian Information Service officer Mushtaq Ahmad is presently posted as Head of the Regional News Unit at Radio Kashmir Srinagar.
AAKH is a collection of eighteen short stories, published in 2012 had earlier bagged the best book award in Kashmiri at the state level from State Academy of Art, Culture and Languages for the year 2014.
