Youngsters want wealthy and deep literature, not infantile: Hindi author Sushil Shukla

Shukla, together with 23 others, has been named the winner for the distinguished kids’s literature award.

“We should always strive that kids’s literature, tales, poems shouldn’t stay just for kids. Its topic ought to be such that folks of all ages can talk with them,” Shukla informed PTI Bhasha over the cellphone from Bhopal.

He added that the successful story assortment “Ek Batey Barah” has been written in such a method that readers of all ages really feel linked to it and return with completely different meanings for themselves.

Shukla, who has been related to kids’s literature for the final 18 years, is the director of Ektara, Takshila’s Youngsters’s Literature and Artwork Heart, and can also be the co-editor of two kids’s magazines – “Pluto” and “Cycle”.

Speaking concerning the award, he appreciated that the academy has established an award “in a considerably ignored space like kids’s literature”.

“That is an award for the thought that wealthy and deep literature is important for youngsters and never infantile literature,” he added.

The editor of “Chakmak”, Shukla was awarded the “Harikrishna Devasare Bal Sahitya Award” for “Ek Batey Barah” in 2024.

Hindi tribal poet Parvati Tirkey has been named the recipient for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar.

“Kaavya Karma is definitely an try to speak by way of poems and I’m blissful that this dialogue has been honoured,” she mentioned.

Tirkey, who hails from the Kudukh tribal neighborhood of Jharkhand, will obtain the award for her poetry assortment “Phir Ugna”.

“Phir Ugna” is Tirkey’s first poetry work, which was revealed by Radhakrishna Prakashan within the yr 2023.

The poems of this assortment are “written in easy, truthful and delicate language, which appears like a direct dialogue to the reader”.

In these poems, the earth, timber, birds, moon, stars and forests should not mere symbols – they’re current inside the poem as a residing world.

Tirkey makes the experiences of tribal life part of her poems whereas underlining the continued pressure between the strain of contemporary civilisation and the desire to reside of the tribal tradition.

The awardees will obtain a money prize of ₹50,000 together with a copper-plaque at a particular ceremony on a later date.

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