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Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023
December 24 , 2023
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- Tamil writer Devibharathi’s novel Neervazhi Padooum, has won the Sahitya Akademi award for 2023.
- It is depicting the life of the Kudi Navithar, the community barbers in the Kongu region of Tamil Nadu
- Neervazhi Padooum is a line from Purananuru poem, a Sangam age literary work.
- The lines Neervazhi Padooum “punaipol aaruyir muraivazhi padoom” translates to a float that sails on the way of the water, indicating that life travels on the path chalked out by fate.
- Telugu writer T. Patanjali Sastry and Malayalam litterateur E.V. Ramakrishnan were among those named for the Sahitya Akademi Awards for the year 2023.
- Nine books of poetry, six novels, five short story collections, three essays and one literary study have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards this year.
- The Sahitya Akademi, founded on March 12, 1954 is an autonomous body under the Union Culture Ministry.
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