The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 jointly won by Sudeep Sen and Shobhana Kumar

The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 jointly won by Sudeep Sen and Shobhana Kumar

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Category : Awards Published on: December 26 2022

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  • Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection A Sky Full of Bucket Lists shared the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize (Red River, 2021). 
  • The winners, who each received $10,000 and a Rabindranath Tagore statuette, were chosen from a shortlist of 11 at India International Centre, with Sanjoy K Roy, producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival, receiving the Tagore Prize for social achievement.
  • The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was started in 2018 to annually recognise literary and social accomplishments. In 2020, the award was won by Raj Kamal Jha, Chief Editor, The Indian Express, for The City and The Sea (2019, Penguin Books), and in 2019, it was awarded posthumously to Kabir for One Hundred Poems of Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore.
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