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Friday 5 August 2011

NE translators awarded

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Agartala, Aug 05, 2011 : Four writers of Northeastern region will be awarded with the Sahitya Akademi translation prize 2010 for their outstanding literary works.

The awards would be presented during a special function at Thrissur in Kerala Aug 16, according to an official release of the Sahitya Akademi.

The northeast writers are Anupama Dutta Saikia (from Assam in Assamese language), Shyamal Bhattacharya (from Tripura in Bengali language), L. Birendra

Kumar Sharma (from Manipur in Manipuri language) and Uthrisar Khungur Basumatary (from Assam in Bodo language).

Saikia has translated a Kannada novel; Bhattacharya translated Punjabi short stories; Basumatary translated an Assamese novel; and Sharma translated noted writer and journalist Khuswant Singh's novel "Train to Pakistan".

The prize carries an amount of Rs.50,000, an engraved copper plaque and a citation.

Shyamal Bhattacharya, a former official of Indian Air Force, said, 'a large number of poets, writers, artists and literateurs of Northeast are yet to be recognized although they have done so many outstanding works in the literary and cultural fields'.

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