Sahitya honour for Telugu writer, poet Dr Papineni Sivasankar

HYDERABAD: Acclaimed Telugu writer and poet Dr Papineni Sivasankar has been selected for the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for 2016. Dr Sivasankar’s work, Rajanigandha, published in December 2013, fetched him the honour.

Dr Sivasankar was one among eight poets selected for the national-level honour.
In all, eight books of poetry, seven books of short stories, five books of novels, two books of criticism, one book of essays and a book of play got the honour this year.

Speaking to this newspaper over phone from Imphal, where he was attending the All India Writers’ meet, Dr Sivasankar said he was happy to have been honoured.
Rajanigandha was one of his best works in poetry published in the 90s, he noted.