Sahitya Akademi award for Bengali author Shankar

KOLKATA: Eminent author Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, better known as Shankar, will be conferred the Sahitya Akademi

Award

2020 for his memoir titled ‘Eka Eka Ekashi’. Author

Subodh Sarkar

, who is the convener of the Akademi’s advisory board for Bengali, told TOI that this award for the 87-year-old writer had been “long overdue”. On being asked if he too felt that the award was long

overdue

, Shankar said, “The answer is a yes and a no. At the London Bookfair, I was asked why it had taken so long for the English translation of ‘

Chowringhee

’ to reach globally...I know, it’s always worth the wait.”