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StatesPosted at: Jun 24 2018 8:23PM


Nagaland author Easterine to get Bal Sahitya Puraskar

Kohima, Jun 24 (UNI) Noted poet and author of Nagaland Easterine Kire has been selected for the Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2018 for her novel ‘Son of the Thundercloud'.

According to report received today the award was announced by India’s national academy of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, after its executive board met on Friday last in Guwahati.
It has approved 23 writers of various Indian languages for the award. Kire was selected for the best author award in the English category. The Bal Sahitya Puraskar, comprising a casket containing an engraved copper plaque and a cheque of Rs 50, 000, will be given away at a function on November 14, 2018.
Easterine Kire’s book had won the Book of the Year Award for fiction at the Tata Literature Live Awards 2017.
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