Sign In
Learn bits
Awards
Mahesh

26/09/22 06:35 AM IST

Author-poet Meena Kandasamy wins the German PEN award

In News 
  • Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany’s Darmstadt.
About Award
  • The Hermann Kesten Prize honours personalities who, in the spirit of the charter of the PEN association, stand up for the rights of persecuted authors and journalists.
  • The PEN Center, Germany, will present the award to the Indian author at a ceremony in Darmstadt on November 15 this year.
  • The winner will receive an amount of €20,000 ($19,996) as prize money.
  • This year, the PEN Center is also honouring the website “Weiter Schreiben” (German for “Keep writing”) with a special award for encouragement, for giving authors in exile and writers from conflict zones a platform to express their thoughts.
Meena Kandasamy 
  • Meena Kandasamy was born in 1984 in Chennai, Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist whose work revolves around the issue of gender, caste, sexuality, patriarchy, and oppression by the Brahmanical system.
  • Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize.
  • She previously held an editorial role at the English-language magazine ‘The Dalit’. Kandasamy has been a vocal critic of the arrest of fellow writers like Varavara Rao and former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba.
Source- Indian Express 

    More Related Current Affairs View All

    05 May

    Key objectives of caste count

    'The Union Cabinet has decided that the next Census will include questions on caste to its enumeration of India’s population, for the first time in almost a century. ' T

    Read More

    05 May

    2 new genome-edited rice varieties

    'Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently released two genome-edited varieties of rice, the first achievement of its kind in the country.' These two varieties, which

    Read More

    05 Mar

    First-ever comprehensive survey of India’s river dolphins

    'Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the results of the first-ever comprehensive population estimation of riverine dolphins – Gangetic and Indus dolphins – done in In

    Read More

    India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

    Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps