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Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award 2017
November 29 , 2017
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- Actor-playwright Girish Karnad (79) was conferred with 2017 Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution in field of theatre at the eighth edition of the Tata Literature festival held in Mumbai.
- He is famously known for writing plays and his screen debut in Kannada movie “Samskara” had won first President’s Golden Lotus Award for Kannada cinema.
- He is recipient of Jnanpith Award, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards.
- Bengal’s Nabaneeta Dev Sen was conferred Big Little Book Awards
- ‘Age of Anger: A History of the Present’ by Pankaj Mishra won the book of the year, non-fiction.
- Book of the year for fiction was given to Nagaland’s Easterine Kire’s ‘Son of the Thundercloud.
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