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24 Feb 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu Language

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Sahitya Akademi has announced the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 in Urdu language to Urdu language poet Chandrabhan Khayal for his collection of poetry “Taza Hawa Ki Tabishen”.
Shri Chandrabhan will be presented with an engraved copper plate, shawl and an amount of one lakh rupees as a prize at the literary festival to be held in Delhi on March 11 this year.
Along with this, the Akademi on Monday announced the Sahitya Akademi Award for Jagdish Prasad Mandal for his novel ‘Pangu’ in Maithili language. Today Current Affairs.
Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor instituted in the year 1954. The award is presented annually by the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters).
Awards are given every year by the Academy for literary works in 24 languages recognized by it, as well as for mutual literary translation in these languages.
Apart from the 22 languages included in the Constitution of India, the Sahitya Akademi has also recognized English and Rajasthani as the languages in which the program of the Akademi can be implemented. The Hindu Analysis.
The Sahitya Akademi Award is the second highest literary award given by the Government of India after the Jnanpith Award.