Sahitya Academy Award 2010: The Sahitya Akademi announced the winners of the Sahitya Academy Awards for 2010 on 19 December 2010. Eight books of poetry, four novels, and three short story collections were selected for the award. A travelogue by former Union minister M P Veerendrakumar was selected for the 2010 Sahitya Akademi awards. The awards were decided upon by jury members representing 22 Indian languages and approved by the executive board of the Sahitya Akademi under the presidency of Sunil Gangopadhyay.
Famous poets honoured with the award for the year 2010 are: Aurobindo Uzir (Bodo), Arun Sakhardande (Konkani), Gopi Narayan Pradhan (Nepali), Vanita (Punjabi), Mangat Badal (Rajasthani), Mithila Prasad Tripathi (Sanskrit), Laxman Dubey (Sindhi) and Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Urdu), Akademi Secretary Agrahara Krishna Murthy said. The well-known novelists who have been selected include Bani Basu (Begali), Esther David (English), Dhirendra Mehta (Gujarati) and M Borkanya (Manipuri).
Manoj (Dogri), Uday Prakash (Hindi) and Nanji Nadan (Tamil) won Sahitya Academy award for their collection of short stories are.
Critics Keshada Mahanta (Assamese), Rahamath Tarikere (Kannada), Basher Bashir (Kashmiri) and Ashok R Kelkar (Marathi) were chosen for the award for their books.
Pathani Pattnaik (Oriya) won the Sahitya Academy Award for his autobiography and Bhogla Soren (Santali) for his book of play.
Veerendrakumar who is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mathrubhoomi group of publications, was awarded for his travelogue Haimavathabhuvil in Malayalam.
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