Media Release
Mangaluru, Aug 11: Wilson Roshan Sequiera, who writes under the pen name Wilson Kateel, has been chosen for the Leo Rodrigues Endowment Kittall Youth Award for the year 2016.
Wilson Kateel has written more than 400 poems, ten short stories and a number of essays and established himself as a Konkani writer of repute. Having written more than 100 lyrics for Konkani albums, movies, drama and serials, he has won three consecutive Global Konkani Music Awards.
He has four published works to his credit - 'Pavle' (Kavita Publications, 2011) 'Peek ani Deek' (Pragati Press, 2014) 'Tasveenth' (poems to artist Wilson Kayyar's photography, Karnataka Konknai Sahitya Academy Publication, 2015) and 'Paklyo' (published by Dhyanavana Prakashana, 2015)
He has participated in a number of poetry reciting sessions, All India Radio, Doordarshan, Sahitya Academy and Mysore Dasara Poetry reciting being notable among them.
The Youth Award is instituted by Kittall.com, a premier Konkani literary web portal with H M Pernal, being its editor. The award is sponsored by NRI businessman, Leo Rodrigues. The award consists a purse of 25,000 and a citation.
Prior to this, Fr Jo Cy Siddakatte (2012) Wilma, Bantwal (2013), Stany, Bela (2014) and Melwin Kolalgiri (2015) have received the award.
The jury headed by well-known poet and thinker Titus Noronha has chosen Wilson Kateel for this award. The award will be presented on Saturday August 20 at Gallerie Orchid at 6.30 pm. Gallerie Orchid is located at Mischief Mall, K S Rao Road, Mangaluru.
About Kittall.com
Kittall.com is edited and published by eminent Konkani poet/critic Henry M Pernal and is in 6th successful year of publication. The exclusive konkani literary website kittall.com was inaugurated by Sahitya Akademi award winning poet Melvyn Rodrigues on February 5, 2011 and has been publishing articles on important issues leading to healthy debate. It has been a launching pad for many writers who write on different genres such as poetry, short stories, essays, articles, columns and so far has got a content database of about 75,000 pages. The objective of the site has been to promote awareness on important social issues and it has successfully donned the role of being so.