Eminent litterateur Gyan Chaturvedi will be honored with the 32nd Vyas Samman

Eminent litterateur Gyan Chaturvedi will be honored with the 32nd Vyas Samman

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Category : Awards Published on: March 15 2023

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Noted Hindi writer Dr Gyan Chaturvedi's 2018 satirical novel, ‘Pagalkhana’, has been selected for the 32nd Vyas Samman, 2002.
Instituted by the KK Birla Foundation in 1991, the annual Vyas Samman is given to an outstanding Hindi literary work by an Indian citizen published during the last 10 years. It carries award money of ₹4 lakh.
After considering the works published during 2012-2021, a selection committee headed by eminent litterateur Prof Ramji Tiwari picked Dr Chaturvedi’s Pagalkhana (mental asylum) for the prestigious Vyas Samman.
Dr Chaturvedi received India’s fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 2015.
He has also won the Madhya Pradesh government’s Sharad Joshi Samman for outstanding achievement in the field of satire and essay, besides the Delhi Academy Award and the Indu Sharma International Katha Samman.
He recently retired as the head of a BHEL-empanelled hospital after working there for over three decades.
Besides the Vyas Samman, the KK Birla Foundation has also instituted Saraswati Samman and Bihari Puraskar.
While the Saraswati Samman, which carries an amount of ₹15 lakh, is given to an outstanding literary work of an Indian citizen in any of the languages included in Schedule VIII to the Constitution of India and published during a period of 10 years, the Bihari Puraskar with an amount of ₹2.5 lakh is meant for Hindi/Rajasthani writers of Rajasthan.

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