Bengali Poet Shankha Ghosh will be awarded with Jnanpith Award in 2016. Shankha Ghosh is the 6th Bengali poet / novelist to receive this award. The others are: Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1966), Bishnu Dey (1971), Ashapurna Devi (1976), Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1991) and Mahasweta Devi (1996).
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Awards for Shankha Ghosh
Narsingh Das Puraskar (1977, for Muurkha baro, saamaajik nay)
Sahitya Akademi Award (1977, for Baabarer praarthanaa)
Rabindra-Puraskar (1989, for Dhum legechhe hrit kamale)
Saraswati Samman for his anthology Gandharba Kabitaguccha[2]
Sahitya Akademi Award for translation (1999, for translation of raktakalyaan)
Desikottam by Visva-Bharati (1999)
Padma Bhushan by the Government of India (2011)
Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement "Sahityabrahma" Award by the World Forum for Journalists and Writers (WFJW) (2015)
D.Litt by Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India (2015)
He was also awarded a D.Litt (h.c.) by Vidyasagar University in 2010.
Jnanpith Award in 2016
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