Srinagar: Two valley based poets Naji Munawwar and Sagar Nazir have been awarded Sahitya Academy award 2019 in two different categories.
Convener Kashmiri Advisory Board of Sahitya Academy, Dr Aziz Hajini on Friday announced that the two have bagged the prestigious award for their poetry collections.
Naji Munawwar, 85 from Kapran Shopian has been awarded ‘Baal Sahitya Puruskar’ for his book ‘shuren hund Naji’.
Naji was selected among eight authors for the award and has already been awarded Sahitya Academy Award, main category, for the year 2003.
Sagar Nazir, a young poet from Pattan area of Baramulla has been awarded Yuva Puruskaar of Sahitya Academy for the year 2019 for his book ‘Ther Aangnech’.
He was selected for the prestigious award among six authors.
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