News:Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018.
Facts:
- K Siva Reddy was awarded the Saraswati Samman award for his collection Pakkaki Ottigilite in 2018.
About Saraswati samman:
- Saraswati Samman award was instituted by the KK Birla Foundation in 1991.
- The award is given annually for an outstanding literary work written in any official Indian languages and published during the preceding 10 years.
- It is the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature and carries a cash purse of Rs 15 lakh apart from a citation and a plaque.
Additional information:
- To felicitate writers,the KK Birla Foundation has instituted three awards in the field of literature.
- These are the (a)Saraswati Samman (b)Vyas Samman (for Hindi) and (c)Bihari Puraskar(for Hindi and Rajasthani writers of Rajasthan).
