Odisha poet Rabi Singh to receive Atibadi Jagannath Das award

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Dec 8, 2017 at 5:15 PM Updated On : Dec 8, 2017 at 5:16 PM

Bhubaneswar: Poet Rabi Singh will be conferred with the prestigious Atibadi Jagannath Das Samman, to be given by the Odisha Sahitya Akademi, for the year 2017.

A decision in this regard was taken today at a meeting of the Odisha Sahitya Akademi under the chairmanship of Harihar Mishra.

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Singh will receive the award at a ceremony to be organised by the Odisha Sahitya Akademi.

Besides, 15 litterateurs– Sanatan Mohanty, Rajat Kumar Kar, Bhupen Mohapatra, Nabakishore Prusty, Ramchandra Mohanty, Surendra Kumar Moharana, Trinath Sahu, Laxmidhar Jena, Banshidhar Rout, Panchanan Mishra, Anjali Panda, Nakula Chandra Sahu, Anil Chandra Das, Kumuda Chandra Das and Gobardhan Nayak– will be felicitated at the award ceremony.