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Kolakaluri Enoch
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Vishwanath Tripathi
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M P Veerendra Kumar
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C. Radhakrishnan
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Detailed explanation-1: -This year this award will be given to Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, former president of Sahitya Akademi and famous Hindi poet-critic. He will be given this award for his autobiography ‘Asti Aur Bhavati’.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Moortidevi Award is an Indian literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organisation, to an author. The award is given only to Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, and in English.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ray’s novel Shilapadma in 1983 won her the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award, 1985, while Yajnaseni (1984) got her the Moorti Devi Award in 1991 and Sarala Award in 1990.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), published in 1950.