The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 jointly won by Sudeep Sen and Shobhana Kumar

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The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene : Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection 'A Sky Full of Bucket Lists' (Red River, 2021).

Important facts

• The Tagore Award for Social Achievement was given to Sanjay K. Roy, the producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

• The winners were presented with $10,000 and a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at the India International Center on 26 December.

• Sudip Sen won the award for his remarkable work in 'Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation', a collection of poetry, prose, creative non-fiction and photography.

• His poems on the pandemic point to the healing and sensitivity that still exist as human qualities.

• Shobhana Kumar won the Tagore Prize for her outstanding work in A Sky Full of Bucket Lists, a collection of poems in the Japanese haibun style.

• Haibun is a story or narration based on experience in which one's own sensibilities are threaded.

• It is a contemporary literary form born in Japan combining prose and haiku.

About Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize

• The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Award was instituted in 2018 to annually recognize literary and social achievements.

• In 2020, Raj Kamal Jha, editor-in-chief, The Indian Express, won the award for The City and the Sea (2019, Penguin Books), and in 2019, it was awarded posthumously to Kabir for One Hundred Poems of Kabir.