Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh Win Sahitya Akademi Award 2017
Authors Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh have
won this year's Sahitya Akademi award for their work.
The Black Hill, a novel, and Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar, a literary
criticism, in English and Hindi respectively.
The Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards 2017 in
24 languages. Seven novels, five collections each of poetry and short
stories, five works of literary criticism, a play and a book of essays
have won the awards.
The award in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque, a
shawl and a cheque of Rs 1 lakh will be presented to the authors at a
special function to be held on February 12, 2018.
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