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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
April 2 , 2022
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- Writer Indira Parthasarathy was conferred the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship by the Sahitya Akademi.
- The fellowship, which is India’s highest literary honor, is presented to distinguished scholars of outstanding literary merit.
- The number of Akademi fellows at a given time is restricted to only 21.
- Indira Parthasarathy is a Padma Shri awardee.
- He has published 16 novels, 10 plays, and anthologies of short stories and essays.
- He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977 for his novel Kuruthipunal.
- He is the only Tamil writer to have received both the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
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