Noted poet and litterateur Prof Ramdarash Mishra will be awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2021, for his collection of poems ‘Mein to Yahan Hun’, the KK Birla Foundation announced.
The recipient is chosen by a selection committee, whose current head is Dr Subhash C Kashyap.
Saraswati Samman is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country.
It was instituted in 1991.
It is given every year to an outstanding literary work written in any Indian language by an Indian citizen and published within the last 10 years.