Two writers from Tamil Nadu are among the list of winners of Sahitya Akademi awards for this year for authors who contributed to children’s literature and for young authors below the age of 35 years, under the Tamil language category.
Kriungai Sethupathy won the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for his poems named ‘Siragu Mulaitha Yaanai’, while Suneel Krishnan won the Yuva Puraskar for his collection of short stories, “Ambu Padukkai”.