Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh to get 2016 Jnanpith Award

December 23, 2016 16:43

Bengali poet and literary critic Shankha Ghosh will get the Jnanpith Award for 2016. The award is given for exceptional contribution in the field of literature.

Born in 1932, in Chandipur, present day Bangladesh, Ghosh is a prolific poet, critic and academician and an authority on Rabindranath Tagore, whose poetic idiom and experiments with various poetic forms mark his greatness as a creative talent.

He has earlier won the Sahitya Academy Award and the Padmabhushan for his contribution to Indian literature.

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