The 11th ‘Shri Lal Shukla Smriti IFFCO Sahitya Samman’ for the year 2021 is going to be presented to the well-known story writer Shivamurthy at Sant Gadge Auditorium in Lucknow today on Monday.
Several IFFCO officials led by its MD Dr U S Awasthi are already in town for the occasion.
The selection committee headed by eminent litterateur Mrs. Chitra Mudgal and consisting of Mrs. Madhusudan Anand, Vishnu Nagar, Jayaprakash Kardam, Murli Manohar Prasad Singh and Dr. Dinesh Kumar Shukla, zeroed in on Shivamurthy’s name after seeing his wide range of writing
Shri Shivamurthy is a story writer who has written extensively on rural and village life. He has depicted contradictions, distortion and inner struggle of rural life in his fictions very touchingly. The ugliness of the feudal system and the harsh reality of rural life come to the fore in his works.
This award, started in the year 2011 in the memory of illustrious story writer Shrilal Shukla, is given every year to such a Hindi writer whose works mainly depict the problems, aspirations and struggles related to rural and agricultural life.
This honour has been given to Vidyasagar Nautiyal, Shekhar Joshi, Sanjeev, Mithileshwar, Ashtabhuja Shukla, Kamalakant Tripathi, Ramdev Dhurandhar, Ramdhari Singh ‘Divakar’, Mahesh Katare and Ranendra so far.
The winning litterateur is presented with a memento, a citation and a cheque for an amount of Rs 11 lakh. This award will be conferred on Shri Shivamurthy on January 31, 2022.
The event is being live webcast, informed Dr Awasthi through a tweet.
