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Joy Goswami - Moortidevi Award 2017
December 22 , 2017
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- Eminent Bengali poet Joy Goswami will be honoured with the 31st Moortidevi Award for the year 2017.
- Goswami will be conferred with the award for his poetry collection titled Du Dondo Phowara Matro which is an autobiographical account of the poets’ life featuring his close ones including a pet cat.
- He will be the first Bengali poet to get this award.
- Secret trysts, chance loves and more of the fantastical quotidian which makes up the poets’ consciousness are some highlights of poet's literary work.
- He has Kendriya and Bangla Sahitya Akademi Awards, Ananda Purashkar, and the first Tata Literature Live Poet Laureate Award.
- The Moortidevi Award is an India literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organisation, to an author for their "contemplative and perceptive work".
- The award is bestowed only to Indian writers writing in Indian languages
- The award consists of a Saraswati Statue, a Citation Plaque and cash award of Rupees 4 lac.
- Kannada writer C. K. Nagaraja Rao was the first person to be honoured with the award in 1983 for his novel, Pattamahadevi Shantala Devi.
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