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2016, Jyanpith Award

Bengali poetry's global icon gets Jnanpith 2016, Dec 24, 2016: The Times of India

 Eminent modern Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh has been chosen as the winner of the prestigious Jnanpith Award for 2016, the organisation has announced. “The Jnanpith selection board has announced the recipient of the 52nd Jnanpith Award in a meeting. It went to eminent modern Bengali poet Shri Shankha Ghosh,“ the organi sation said in an official statement. The meeting was chaired by writer and scholar Namwar Singh.

Instituted in 1961, the award, given out by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, recognises Indian literatteurs who write in any of the 22 languages listed in Schedule Eight of the Indian Constitution.

A prolific poet, critic and academician, Ghosh is an authority on Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. His poet ic idiom and experiments with various poetic forms mark his greatness as a creative talent. He is a poet with an eye to the social milieu, and his poems record both his time and space in a rare poetic style.His poems are often laden with messages, but are free of polemics.

Born in 1932, Ghosh has penned several poems, including ` Adim lata-gulmo may', `Murkha baro, samajik nay', `Kabir abhipray', `Mukh dheke jay bigyapane' and `Babarer prarthana', that went on to gain the status of classics. His works have been translated into several other Indian languages including Marathi, Assamese, Punjabi and Malayalam, as well as some foreign languages, a sign of his wide appeal. He has a style that is lyrical, often portraying a sense of anguish towards the superficiality of society and existence. Ghosh has previously received the Sahitya Akademi Award, Narsingh Das Puraskar, Saraswati Samman, and Rabindra Puraskar, among other recognitions.