Katha Prize Stories: 2

Asha Bage is a Marathi novelist. She was awarded with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for her novel Bhoomi.

Atulananda Goswami is an Assamese short story writer and novelist. His works have been met with great acclaim over his lengthy literary career. He has also been involved in the translation of many English, Bengali and Oriya texts into Assamese, and of Assamese into English. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006 for his short story collection Seneh Jarir Ganthi, the Ambikagiri Roy Choudhury Sahitya Bota in 1991, the Kumar Kishore Sowarani Bota in 1997, the Katha Award in 1992 and the Sneha Bharati Sahitya Samman in 1998.

B Jayamohan published his first story and his first poem in 1978 when he was 16 years old. His first novel Rubber won the Akilon Memorial Prize for 1990. Tarkala Malayala Kavidaigal, a collection of poems edited by him was published in 1991.

Bhupen Khakhar is known primarily as a painter. He is an occasional writer of fiction in Gujarati.

Bimal Kar was born in Taki, North 24-Parganas, West Bengal, in 1921. He spent his early youth in Asansol and parts of Bihar. He was involved in myriad professions that helped him write on varied subjects. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in Bengali in 1975, among other honours.

Dhruva Shukla is a poet and novelist who writes for children and adults. His works include a few novels, several poems and short stories. He was the assistant editor of Poorvagraha, the literary journal in Hindi, brought out by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal.

Geeta Dharmarajan loves writing for children. She received the Padma Shri in 2012 for her work in literature and education. She was also the joint winner of the Business Standard Award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018.

Gopinath Mohanty was a distinguished Oriya novelist and short story writer with more than twenty-two novels, eight short story collections, three plays, two books on tribal culture and seven works of translation to his credit He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Amruta Santana, in 1955, and the Jnanpith Award in 1977. In 1981, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He spent the major part of his professional life as an administrator when he undertook extensive research into the life and culture of the tribal people of Orissa. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the San Jose State University.

Littérateur, playwright, critic, travel writer, screenwriter M T Vasudevan Nair is one of the most outstanding writers of India.

Born at Kudallur village in Palghat, Kerala in 1933, MT began contributing to periodicals very early in life. The first collection of his short stories was published before he completed his graduation from Victoria College, Palghat. He joined the Malayalam magazine Mathrubhumi in 1956, and later became its editor.

He has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Kaalam; the President’s Gold Medal for the film Nirmalyam – written, produced and directed by him; The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award thrice for his novel, Naalukettu; his short story collection Swargam Turakkunna Samayam and play, Gopuranatayil. He received the Vayalar Award for his novel Randamoozham and the National Award for Best Screenplay for Oru Vadakkan Veera Gatha, Sadayam and Kadavu. MT was awarded the Katha Award for Creative Fiction for the story Cheriya Cheriya Bhookambangal in 1992. He received the prestigious Jnanpith award in 1995. The Padma Bhushan Award was conferred upon him in 2005. MT lives in Calicut.

Manju Kak is a freelance journalist and writer. Among other things, she has worked for several years as a teacher and broadcaster. She also designs and paints and is interested in film production.

Milind Bokil is a sociologist with a PhD in social anthropology. He has done several socio-economic studies of development projects and voluntary agencies. An activist, he has worked in tribal and economically backward areas. His first collection of short stories was released in 1992.

Mohan Parmar is a Gujarati critic, short story writer and novelist. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his collection of short stories Anchalo.

Rentala Nageswara Rao has written several fiction and non-fiction books, many of which have received awards from leading Telugu magazines.

Rukun Advani has a PhD on E.M. Forster from Cambridge University and has served in the Editorial Department of the Oxford University Press.

Shyamal Gangopadhyay was a Bengali novelist. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 for his novel Shahjada Darasukoh.

Subrabharatimanian was born in 1956 in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu. He has published several collections of short stories.

Vaidehi is one of the most prominent Indian women writers, and is a recipient of state and national literary awards. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for her collection Krauncha Pakshigalu.

Vivek Shanbag is a Kannada writer, playwright and novelist. His works have also been translated into English and various Indian languages.

Zamiruddin Ahmad is considered a front-ranking short story writer in Urdu. His published works include short story collections, critical essays, plays and TV serials. A journalist by profession, he migrated from India to Pakistan in 1947 and then to England in 1971. He served as a broadcaster for the BBC, the Voice of America, Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television.