Sahitya Akademi Announced Yuva Puraskar, Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2024.

Awards

Sahitya Akademi announced the winners of the prestigious Yuva Puraskar and Children's Literature Award for 2024. A total of 23 writers including English writer K Vaishali and Hindi writer Gaurav Pandey will receive the Youth Award. Vaishali has been honored for her memoir "Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India" and Pandey for her poetry collection "Smriti Ke Beech Ghiri Hai Prithvi". The Yuva Puraskar is given for 10 poetry books, seven short story collections and other works in various genres.


      The Yuva Puraskar is given for 10 poetry books, seven short story collections, two article collections and one essay collection, one novel, one ghazal book and one memoir.

      Other winners of the youth award include Nayanjyoti Sarma (Assamese), Sutapa Chakraborty (Bengali), Self Made Rani Baro (Bodo) and Heena Choudhary (Dogri).

     

 

     


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