Amrith Someshwar to get Govinda Pai Prashasti
TNN | Updated: Dec 27, 2018, 09:59 IST
Amrith SomeshwarMANGALURU: Senior writer prof Amrith Someshwar has been selected for the 2018 – Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai award. He will get Rs 1 lakh and a citation.
The selection committee presided by the pro chancellor of Manipal University, Dr H S Ballal, has selected prof Someshwar for this award, which is given away through Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra, as announced by prof Varadesh Hiregange, the coordinator of Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra.
The chief of Manipal Global, T V Mohandas Pai, in the name of his mother Vimala Pai, has kept an endowment in Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra for Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Smaraka Prashasti.
Someshwar, a multi-dimensional literary personality, has contributed to literature as a novelist, translator, short-story writer, poet and a researcher on Yakshagana and Tulu folk literature.
His woks include various genres like drama, radio plays, Yakshagana prasangas, proverbs and dictionary. He has been honoured with an honorary doctorate from Mangalore University, awards from Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Academy and Rajyotsava award among others.
Someshwara was born in Adka in Kotekar village near Mangaluru. Completing his primary education in Stella Maris Convent, Kotekar, he did his high school education at Anandashrama high school. After graduating from St Aloysius College, he did his MA from Karnataka University, as an external candidate.
He has worked as a professor of Kannada in many colleges, and after retirement, he worked as a guest faculty in the department of Kannada of Mangalore University.
The selection committee presided by the pro chancellor of Manipal University, Dr H S Ballal, has selected prof Someshwar for this award, which is given away through Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra, as announced by prof Varadesh Hiregange, the coordinator of Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra.
The chief of Manipal Global, T V Mohandas Pai, in the name of his mother Vimala Pai, has kept an endowment in Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra for Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Smaraka Prashasti.
Someshwar, a multi-dimensional literary personality, has contributed to literature as a novelist, translator, short-story writer, poet and a researcher on Yakshagana and Tulu folk literature.
His woks include various genres like drama, radio plays, Yakshagana prasangas, proverbs and dictionary. He has been honoured with an honorary doctorate from Mangalore University, awards from Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Tulu Academy and Rajyotsava award among others.
Someshwara was born in Adka in Kotekar village near Mangaluru. Completing his primary education in Stella Maris Convent, Kotekar, he did his high school education at Anandashrama high school. After graduating from St Aloysius College, he did his MA from Karnataka University, as an external candidate.
He has worked as a professor of Kannada in many colleges, and after retirement, he worked as a guest faculty in the department of Kannada of Mangalore University.
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