Question: Recently a Jammu-born poet and novelist Padma Sachdev has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015 for her autobiography written in which of the following language?
(a) Tamil
(b) Gujrati
(c) Marathi
(d) Dogri
Ans (d)
Related facts:
- On 12 April 2016 Jammu-born poet and novelist Padma Sachdev has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015 for her autobiography written in Dogri language.
- She has been awarded for her autobiography titled “Chitt-Chete” written in Dogri language.
- The selection for the award was made by a 13-member panel of scholars and writers headed by former Chief Justice of India A S Anand.
- The 76-year-old writer’s autobiography ‘Chitt-Chete’, published in 2007, was selected from 22 works in as many languages published between the years 2005-2014.
- Born in Jammu in 1940, Sachdev hails from a family of Sanskrit scholars and took to writing in her mother tongue – Dogri- as a teenager.
- She has published her several poetry collection including Meri Kavita Mere Geet that has won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.
- She has also received the Padma Shri, the Indian fourth highest civilian award in 2001, and the Kabir Samman for poetry for the year 2007-2008, given by Government of Madhya Pradesh.
- She has been awarded prestigious “Krutitava Smagra Samman”for the year 2015 by Indian Language Council in March,2016.
- Instituted by the K K Birla Foundation in 1991, Saraswati Samman is given annually for an outstanding literary work in any Indian language mentioned in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution.
- The award, in its 25th year now, carries a cash purse of Rs 15 lakh, a citation and a plaque.
- The Saraswati Samman for 2014 was given to Veerappa Moily for his work Ramayana Mahanveshanam.
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