Indian activist-author Meena Kandasamy wins German PEN award

Indian activist-author Meena Kandasamy wins German PEN award

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Category : Awards Published on: September 26 2022

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Indian activist-author-poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as the recipient of the Hermann Kesten Award 2022, which is given by the PEN Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
The award is given to Kandasamy in honour and recognition of her support for the rights of victimized writers.
She won award for the books "The Gypsy Goddess," (2014) and "When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife" (2017).
She has also published anthologies of her poems, most notably "Ms Militancy" (2010) and "#ThisPoemWillProvokeYou and Other Poems" (2015).
The PEN Center, Germany, will present the award to the Indian author at a ceremony in Darmstadt on November 15 this year. The winner will receive an amount of €20,000 ($19,996) as prize money.

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