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Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh Win Sahitya Akademi Award 2017
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i. 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.
ii. 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.
iii. 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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▪K. Sreenivasarao- Secretary of Sahitya Akademi.
▪Sahitya Akademi is India’s National Academy of Letters, it was established in 1954.