Ramswaroop Kissan gets Sahitya Akademi Award-2019 for writing in Rajasthani.

Who : Ramswaroop Kissan

For : Barik Baat a story book in Rajasthani

Mr. Kissan belongs from parlika village of Nohar tehsil in Hanumangarh.

Mr kissan got a memento, cash prize and shawl.

  • More than a dozen books of the Mr Kissan have been published so far.

  • Received many honors :

  • Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, Rajasthani Language-Literature

  • Culture Academy’s Muralidhar Vyas Rajasthani Katha Award

  • Delhi Katha Award. etc

  • His Rajasthani story ‘Ga Kathai Bandoon’ is in the syllabus of Rajasthan University-Jaipur and Board of Secondary Education-Rajasthan, Ajmer,

  • His collection of poems ‘Aa Baith Baat Karan’  in Vidyapeeth University  Udaipur

  • English translation of the Rajasthani story ‘Dalal’, ‘The Broker’ in Christ University Bangalore (Karnataka) and Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam ( Kerala)

  • His ‘Hadakhodi’ is considered the first collection of post-modern stories in Rajasthani literature.

  • Some short stories from his short story collection ‘Sapanai Ro Sapno’ has been included  in the syllabus of Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan.

  • The book ‘Rati Kaner’ is a Rajasthani translation of Tagore’s Bengali drama ‘Rakta Karbi’, has also received the Sahitya Akademi New Delhi Translation Award.