Eminent authors, Padmaj Paul & Amaresh Pattnaik conferred Koraput Literary Award 2020 45
Bhubaneswar: The two-day third edition of Koraput Literary Festival (KLF) organised by Odia Media Private Limited was inaugurated today at Hotel New Marrion Bhubaneswar. The two-day event was inaugurated by Odia Language, Literature and Culture minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi. Two eminent authors, Dr Padmaj Paul and Sri Amaresh Pattnaik received Koraput Literary Award for 2020. Each were awarded with a cash prize of 21,000 rupees, a certificate, memento and Uttariya.
Popular novelist Dr Bibhuti Patnaik and celebrated poet Sri Haraprasad Das also joined as guest at the inaugural event. Odia Media director and note fiction writer Subhransu Panda presided over the meeting.