Hindi Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla Selected For 59th Jnanpith Award

New Delhi: Eminent Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla was on Saturday named the recipient of the 59th Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honour. He will be the first writer from Chhattisgarh to receive the award. The 88-year-old short story writer, poet and essayist, considered one of the greatest contemporary writers in the language, is the … Read more