Eminent writer Dr Hara Parasad Das will get the Moortidevi Award for 2013 for his poetry creation Vamsha based on Mahabharata. This is the second Moortidevi Award for Odia literature.
Das, who has eleven works of poetry, four of prose, three translations and a fiction to his credit, has been chosen for the award by the Moortidevi Award Selection Board at a meeting chaired by Union Oil Minister Dr M Veerappa Moily.
Delhi-based Rajkamal Prakashan Group has published the Hindi translation of Vamsha, a modern poetic form of Mahabharata.
This year’s Jnanpith Award winner Dr Pratibha Ray had bagged the Moortidevi Award in 1991 for her novel Yajnaseni.
This award, given annually, is considered to be the second highest after Jnanpith and presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation for a work which emphasises Indian philosophy and culture. The award includes a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh, a plaque, a statue of Goddess Saraswati and a shawl.
