NEW DELHI: The Jnanpith Selection Board (JSB) on Thursday announced Oriya author Prathiba Ray's name for the 47th Jnanpith award for 2011.
The decision was announced after a JSB meeting that noted scholar, writer and Jnanpith award winner Sitakant Mahapatra chaired.
Born in 1943, Ray is one of the widely-read Oriya novelists and short story writers, a JSB communique said. "Her novels and stories are deeply and persuasively grounded in the great tradition of story-telling which brings characters and situations alive. She has a unique skill in developing the themes without being pretentious,'' it said.
Ray, who got Padma Shri in 2007, has 20 novels, 24 short stories' collections, 10 travelogues, two poetry collections besides a number of essays to her credit.
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