Sahitya Akademi announces winners of Bal Sahitya Puraskar, Yuva Puraskar 2021

Sahitya Akademi has announced the winners for Yuva Puraskar and Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2021. Check the full list here.

On Thursday, the Sahitya Akademi announced a list of 22 winners of the Yuva Puraskar and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2021. And as per the information, Megha Majumdar won the Yuva Puraskar for her debut novel "A Burning" and Himanshu Vajpai won it for his collection of short stories titled "Kissa Kissa Lucknowa -- Lucknow Ke Awami Kisse".

The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2021 will be given to nine books of poetry, five novels, six short stories and one essay each, and a play, it said.