Hindi poet and litterateur Prof Ramdarash Mishra will be awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2021, for his collection of poems ‘Mein to Yahan Hun’.
- He was chosen by a selection committee, whose current head is Dr Subhash C Kashyap, former secretary-general of the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
- In ‘Mein to Yahan Hun’, Prof Mishra brings to the fore different aspects of inner life, societal concerns, communalism, corruption, human perspectives, exploitation of the Dalits, disquieting urban cities, exuberance of the seasons and climatic concerns.
About Ramdarash Mishra
- Ramdarash Mishra was born in Dumri village in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district on August 15, 1924.
- He has excelled in different branches of Hindi literature. In a career spanning decades, the 98-year-old has to his credit 32 collections of poems, 15 novels, 30 short-story collections, 15 books of literary criticism, four collections of essays, travelogues, and several memoirs.
About Saraswati Samman
- Saraswati Samman, instituted in 1991, is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country.
- It is given every year by K. K. Birla Foundation to an outstanding literary work written in any Indian language by an Indian citizen and published within the last 10 years.
- The prize carries a citation, a plaque, and a cash prize of ₹15 lakhs.
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