Katha Prize Stories: 8
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The stories in this volume are representative of some of the most senstive works produced in the bhashas.
” … Volume 8 is a winner … — Sunday Times
Authors: Amar Mitra, Arupa Patangia Kalita, Azhagyasingar, Damodar Mauzo, Dhoomketu, Jayant Bendre, Kunkna Dangi Adivasis, Naveen Kumar Nathani, S Diwakar, Sajid Rashid, Sriramana, Sudhakar Ghatak, Vijaydan Detha
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Amar Mitra
Amar Mitra is an eminent Bengali writer based in Kolkata. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for his novel Dhurbaputra, and the Bankim Puraskar in 2001 by the Government of Bengal for his novel Ashwacharit. He has been serving as a civil servant and edits a Bengali webzine.
Arupa Patangia Kalita
Arupa Patangia Kalita is an Assamese short story writer and novelist. She is a recipient of the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award, the Katha Prize and the Prabina Saikia Award. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014 for her short story collection titled Mariam Austin Othoba Hira Barua. Her works have been translated into Bengali, English and Hindi, and relate to the lives of the Assamese middle class and working class, focussing on women's issues, violence and insurgency.
Azhagiyasingar
Azhagiyasingar began writing at the age of 22 and has to his credit poems, short stories and novellas. Founder-editor of Navina Virutcham, a literary magazine, he is the recipient of the Tiruppur Tamil Sangam Award for translation.
Damodar Mauzo
Damodar Mauzo has several short stories, novels and junevile literature among his list of published works. He received the 1983 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Karmelin. He has also won the Goa Kala Academy Award and the Konkani Bhasha Mandal Award. In 1997, he was awarded the Best Dialogue Award at the Goa Film Festival for the film Shitooi. He participated actively in the Konkani Porjecho Avaz Movement that successfully culminated in achieving official language status for Konkani.
Dhoomketu
Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi, better known by his pen-name Dhoomketu, was a writer in the Gujarati language, considered as one of the pioneers of the Gujarati short story. He published twenty-four collections of short stories, thirty-two novels, plays and travelogues. He served the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, for Gujarati in 1957.
Jayant Bendre
Jayant Bendre is a Marathi actor, editor and writer. He has written several poems, one-act plays and numerous stories and articles.
Kunkna Dangi Adivasi People
The Kunkna Dangi people of Gujarat have a rich oral tradition, which holds a mystifying realm of untapped literary potential.
Naveen Kumar Naithani
Naveen Kumar Naithani completed in M.Sc in Physics from Dehradun and began writing his pieces for different magazines.
S Diwakar
S Diwakar served as an editor in the United States Information Services, Chennai. He has translated many books from English to Kannada and he is a recipient of the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sajid Rashid
Sajid Rashid is a social activist who is a recipient of the Maharashtra Urdu Academy Award in the Best Short Stories Book category in 1980 and 1990, and their Outstanding Journalist Award in 1981.
Sriramana
Sriramana is the pseudonym of K Rama Rao. He has been associated with films and audio-visual projects made for the government of Andhra Pradesh, apart from writing the scripts for a number of feature films in Telugu.
Sudhakar Ghatak
Sudhakar Ghatak has written several stories and essays. Born to a Dalit family, he added the surname Ghatak owing to his fondness for the reputed Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak.
Vijaydan Detha
Vijadan Detha's lively, wry, and irreverent folk-based tales have widely been widely, read, loved, and awarded since the 1970's. One of the most prolific writers in Indian Literature today, he has to his credit more than 800 short stories, which have been translated into Hindi, English and other languages. Bijji- as Detha is affectionately called- has a gift for selecting the most provocative tales he hears from his fellow villagers and recreating them in a literary form as engaging and as daring as his oral narrative sources. His short fiction anthologies in Rajasthan include Baatan Ri Phuwaari, Alekum Hitler, Roonkh and Kaboo Rani; while Anokha Ped, Antaral, Phoolwari and Priya Mrinal in Hindi. Apart from writing, Detha has also been working tirelessly for the Rupayan Sansthan, an institute that Detha established in 1960 with Komal Kothari. He is also the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Rajasthani, the Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, the Sahitya Chudamani, the Padma Shri and the Katha Chudamani Award.