Question- On June 22, 2017, Sahitya Akademi announced the annual Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2017 in 24 Indian languages. Who will be conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar of Hindi language?
(a) Nighat Sahiba
(b) Chandan Kumar Jha
(c) Hemchandra Belwal
(d) Taro Sidik
Ans: (d)
Related facts:-
- On June 22, 2017, Sahitya Akademi announced the annual Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2017 in 24 Indian languages.
- Awards were recommended by the committees for these languages respectively.
- It was approved at the meeting of the Executive Board of the Academy organized in Guwahati under the chairmanship of Sahitya Akademi president Prof Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari.
- This year, this award will be provided for 16 poem collections, 6 story collections, 2 biographies and 1 essay.
- Award for anthology of poems was given to – Pritam Barua (Assamese), Bijit Gora Ramsiari (Bodo), Rajinder Ranjha (Dogri), Taro Sidik (Hindi), Nighat Shahiba (Kashmiri), Ameya Vishram Naik (Konkani), Chandan Kumar Jha( Maithili), Khanjnokapam Krishnamohan Singh (Manipuri), Sharan Muskan (Gurud) (Nepali), Suryasnat Tripathi (Oriya), Harman (Punjabi), Hemchand Belwal (Sanskrit), Maina Tudu (Santali), Rekha Sachdev Pohani (Sindhi), J. Jai Bharti (Manushi) (Tamil) and Mercy Margaret (Telugu).
- The award-winning story writer is Shamik Ghosh (Bengali), Ram Mori (Gujarati), Shanti K Apanna (Kannada), Awasthi Shashikumar (Malayalam) and Ummed Dhania (Rajasthan).
- Awarded author for autobiography- Manu S. Pillai (English) and Rashid Ahmad Khan (Urdu).
- Awarded essayist is -Rahul Kausambi (Marathi)
- These awards are provided for those works, whose authors are 35 years of age or less on January 1 of the award year.
- As of award an engraved Tamraphalak and Rs.50,000 / – will be provided in a special ceremony.
Related Links:-
http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/yuvapuraskar-announced-2017_h.pdf
https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/literature/regional-poets-lead-sahitya-akademi-yuva-puraskar-1716224