Sudha Murthy’s book ‘Grandparents Bag of Stories’ for children’s literature in English, Gurmeet Kadialvi’s book ‘Sachi Di Kahani’ for Punjabi and self for Urdu. Matin Achalpuri’s book ‘Mamta Ki Dor’ has been selected. Other winners of the Children’s Literature Award are Rothindranath Goswami (Assamese), Shyamalkanti Das (Bengali), Pratima Nandi Narzari (Bodo), Balwan Singh Jamoria (Dogri), Rakshabehan Prahladrao Dave (Gujarati), Vijayashree Haladi (Kannada), Tukaram Ram Shet. (Konkani), Akshay Anand ‘Sunny’ (Maithili), Priya AS (Malayalam), Eknath Awhad (Marathi). Madhusudan Bisht (Nepali), Jugal Kishore Sarangi (Oriya), Kiran Badal (Rajasthani), Radhavallabh Tripathi (Sanskrit), Mansingh Majhi (Santali), Dholan Rahi (Sindhi), Udayashankar (Tamil) and DK Chaduvula Babu (Telugu) Children’s Literature The remaining ten prize winners are.
18 Other winners of the Youth Award are Jintu Geetharth (Assamese), Hamiruddin Midya (Bengali), Mainaoshri Daimari (Bodo), Sagar Shah (Gujarati), Manjunayak Challur (Kannada), Nighat Nasreen (Kashmiri), Tanvi Kamat Bambolkar (Konkani), Ganesh Puthu (Malayalam), Vishakha Vishwanath (Marathi), Naina Adhikari (Nepali), Sandeep (Punjabi), Devilal Mahiya (Rajasthani), Bapi Tudu (Santali), Monica J Panjwani (Sindhi), Ram Thangam (Tamil), Johnny Takkedasila (Telugu), Dhiraj Bismil (Dogri) and Tauseef Barelvi (Urdu). The winners of both the awards will be presented with an engraved copper plaque and an honorarium of Rs.50, each at a function to be held later.
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