Lifetime contribution:
Five writers have been chosen for the Akademi's Bala Sahitya Puraskar for lifetime contribution to children's literature: Sailen Ghosh (Bengali), Shyam Dutt Parag (Dogri), Ramesh Parekh (Gujarati), Harikrishna Devsare (Hindi) and Maheswar Mohanty (Oriya).
The winners of the awards for poetry include Gh. Nabi Aatash (Kashmiri), Snehalata Rai (Nepali), Darshan Singh Asht (Punjabi), Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (Sanskrit), Nuhum Hembram (Santali), M.L. Thangappa (Tamil) and Aasil Aseer Dehlavi (Urdu).
The short-story writers selected are Maheswar Narzary (Bodo), Mayanath Jha (Maithili), Dileep Prabhavalkar (Marathi), Harish B. Sharma (Rajasthani) and M. Bhoopal Reddy (Telugu).
Novelists selected for the awards are Bandita Phukan (Assamese), Siddhartha Sarma (English), Hundraj Balwani (Sindhi), N. D'souza (Kannada), Gajanan Jog (Konkani) and K. Pappootty (Malayalam).
Shantibala Devi (Manipuri) has been chosen for her book of folk tales and plays.
The awards, each comprising a prize purse of Rs. 50,000 and a copper plaque, will be presented in November. Books published between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2009 were considered for the awards.
Each award comprises a prize purse of Rs. 50,000, copper plaque
Announcement
Akademi president and veteran Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay announced the awards at a press conference here on Tuesday after a meeting of the executive board.
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