Bangalore: Na D'Souza Chosen for Central Sahitya Akademi Award

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Aug 19: The Central Sahitya Akademi announced its Bala Sahitya Puraskar (children’s literature) for the year 2011, after the meeting of the executive committee held at Trissur, Kerala recently.

Well-known Kannada writer, Na D’Souza, has won the Bala Puraskar award of the Akademi for his novel, ‘Mulugadeya Oorige Bandavaru’. The award, comprising Rs 50,000 in cash and a citation, will be handed over at a function to be held at Kolkota on November 14 this year. 

Na D’Souza, who has been serving Kannada literary field for the last three decades, has written 37 novels, four plays, 28 children’s literature, and hundreds of short stories. Films based on his novels have been produced, and ‘Kadina Benki’ and ‘Dweepa’ among them have won Rajata Kamala and Swarna Kamala awards.

Seven poetry books, six novels, five short stories, a folk tale and a play apart from five writers have been picked by the jury for the awards. Before announcing the awards, the jury members had gone through nominated works in 24 Indian languages.