SAHITYA AKADEMI FELLOWSHIP
A distinguished scholar, writer, translator and critic, Professor Velcheru Narayana Rao has been elected honorary fellow of Sahitya Akademi.
About:
- The election of Narayana Rao has been made based on his contribution to the Telugu literature.
- His publications include Girls for Sale: Kanyashulkam and A play from Colonial India.
Do you know?
- The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
- It is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a living writer, the number of fellows at no time exceeding 21.
- Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit, the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature."
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first writer elected to the Fellowship; Mulk Raj Anand was the first Indian English writer to be inducted in 1989.
Source: All India Radio