Actor-playwright Girish Karnad was conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of theatre at the Tata Literature Live in Mumbai. Mr Karnad, who has been writing plays, has had his works translated into various Indian languages and helmed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B V Karanth and Alyque Padamsee among others.
At the eighth edition of the Tata Literature festival the 79-year-old playwright, famously known for writing ‘Tughalak’, spoke on the topic ‘Playing on Twenty Tongues’ after receiving the honour.
Tata Trusts’ Big Little Book Awards’, for Author in Bengali Children’s Literature, went to Nabaneeta Dev Sen. This year, in its second edition, ‘BLBA’ recognised champions of Bengali children’s literature.
Book of the year, non-fiction, went to ‘Age of Anger: A History of the Present’ by Pankaj Mishra, whereas the fiction top honour was bagged by Easterine Kire’s ‘Son of the Thundercloud’. The four-day LitFest concluded with a performance by sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan.