21 Dec 2023| 07:29am ISTPrakash Parienkar bags Sahitya Akademi AwardWins the award for his Konkani short story collection ‘Varsal’Team HeraldPANJIM: Prakash Parienkar, a versatile writer from Sattari taluka bagged this year’s Sahitya Akademi Award for his short story collection ‘Varsal’ in Konkani. Sahitya Akademi president Madhav Kaushik announced this along with the books in other 23 Indian languages, at a press conference held in New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon. Nine books of poetry, six novels, five short story collections, three essays and one literary study have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards this year. Parienkar had also bagged the Sahitya Akademi Award for Children’s Literature in 2010 for the children’s play ‘Igadi Bigadi Tigadi Tha’. Kaajro, a short film based on his Konkani short story, bagged the prestigious 67th National Film Award as the Best Regional Film.

Source: The Herald December 20, 2023 21:12 UTC