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Bankim Puraskar

Award for Bengali literature, given by the Government of West Bengal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bankim Puraskar (Bengali: বঙ্কিম পুরস্কার, Bankim Memorial Award) is the highest award given by the Government of West Bengal for contribution to Bengali fiction. The award was instituted in 1975 in memory of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, a famous Bengali novelist of the 19th century. It has been brought under the aegis of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, functioning under the Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, in 2003. The award is handed over by the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

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Awardees

  • 2017 – Balaram Basak[33]
  • 2018 – Subrata Sengupta
  • 2022 – Harsha Dutta for Bengali Prose Fiction Literature[33]
  • 2023 Jayanta Dey Annapurna (novel)[34]
  • 2025 – Sanmatrananda[35][36]
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