DARBHANGA: Kumar Manish Arvind, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer currently posted as conservator of forests in Palamu region of Jharkhand, has been selected for
Sahitya Akademi Award
in Maithili on Wednesday.
The executive committee of Akademi chaired by its president Chandrashekhara Kambara selected him for the prestigious award, along with politician-writer Shashi Tharoor and playwright Nand Kishore Acharya among 23 writers.
“The awards were recommended by distinguished jury members representing 23 Indian languages and approved by the Executive Board of the
Sahitya Akademi
which met today under the chairmanship of Chandrashekhar Kambara, president, Sahitya Akademi,” K Sreenivasarao, secretary of the akademi, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Arvind belongs to Basawanpatti village in
Supaul
district of Bihar. Arvind has been awarded for his poetry collection titled “Jingeek Oriyayon Karait (managing life) published in 2017. He has authored half a dozen books in Maithili.
Earlier in 2013, his compilation of poems, ‘Nichcha Batah Bhel’ (becoming extremely mad) was chosen for ‘Yatri Award’.
Arvind has also authored a Hindi poem book titles ‘Aur Kitni Yatnayen’ (how much more torture), published in1995. For his creation and propagation of Maithili language in Jharkhand, Arvind was awarded Triveni Sahitya Samman-2016.
The poet had completed his graduation from Patna Science College and PG in Forestry from FRI, Dehradun. He did his diploma in wild life management from Wild Life Institute of India, Dehradun. He is a 1998-batch
IFS officer
.
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