WORLD OF AWARDS
Jnanpith Award
- Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, popularly known as Akkitham has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award.
- The Jnanpith Award is presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature" and bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India.
Vyas Samman 2019
- Noted Hindi writer Nasira Sharma will be conferred with the prestigious ‘Vyas Samman’ 2019 for her novel ‘Kagaz ki Naav’.
- The award is given by the K K Birla Foundation.
- The first ‘VyasSamman’ was received in 1991 by eminent critic ....