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As the awards season approaches, a poet and editor offers some suggestions to the Sahitya Akademi
The awards, publishing, journal and events strategies of the Akademi have continued unchanged for years, says Medha Singh. Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi awards are considered among the most prestigious literary accolades in the country, with good reason. But the awards, and many of the Akademi’s other activites, have continued in unchanged form for a long time. Perhaps some change – or, at the very least, re-examination – is in order.
Yuva Puraskar There are two reasons the Akademi should remove the age category and start an award for best debut and perhaps best second book in prose and poetry in each language. For one thing, the patronising and sexist connotations that accompany the prefixes “young” or “emerging” attached to a writer are unnecessary. A man gets to be called young or “in his prime” well into his forties in India, while a woman
In 1962, she also directed
The House is Black, a short
documentary that follows the lives of people hidden away and suffering in a leper colony near the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran. It is considered to be a seminal work of Iranian New Wave Cinema.
Tragically, in 1967 Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32, but she leaves behind a legacy as a respected and renowned writer and champion of women’s rights.
Another woman profiled in the book who left a lasting legacy after a tragic death is the late Maryam Mirzakhani.
A distinguished mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (known as the Nobel Prize of Mathematicians) in 2014, Mirzakhani’s research topics focused on geometry. She made valuable contributions to this area of mathematics.