D. S. Nagabhushan bags Kendra Sahitya Akademi award
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Literary critic D.S. Nagabhushan has been awarded the Kendra Sahitya Akademi award for 2021 for his work Gandhi Kathana, biography of Mahatma Gandhi.
While Basu Bevinagidad has won the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his children’s novel Odi Hoda Huduga, H. Lakshmi Narayan Swamy has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for his poetry Togala Cheelada Karna. The awards were announced on Thursday.
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