PANJIM: Rahaman Abbas, a Ratnagari-born young Urdu and English novelist from Maharashtra, will inaugurate the 22nd Konkani Yuva Sahitya Sammelan at 10 am on Friday, March 17.
The two-day annual literary event of students and youth initiated by Goa Konkani Akademi will be organised and held at Dnyanprasarak Mandal’s College at Assagao.
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Naresh Naik, Assistant Professor teaching Konkani at Goa University and a young writer hailing from Canacona, will be awarded at the inaugural function, the prestigious ‘Yuva Sahitya Puraskar’, instituted in memory of Meghashyam Naik.
Marcos Gonsalves, dramatist and journalist, has been chosen to be the President of the 22nd Konkani Yuva Sahitya Sammelan. The inaugural function would also be graced by Shrikrishna Pokle, Chairman of Dnyanprasarak Mandal.
Dr Dilip Arolkar, Principal of the DMC College is the Reception Committee Chairman while, Purushottam Verlekar, assistant professor in Geology and a young writer, is the Working Chairman.
Arun Sakhardande, Chairman of Goa Konkani Akademi as well as Vasant Bhagwant Sawant, Vice Chairman of the GKA would also grace the occasion. Rahaman is a major contemporary Indian novelist and a recipient of the national Sahitya Akademi award for his fourth novel ‘Rohzin’ in 2018. He has also bagged thrice the state Sahitya Akademi awards of Maharashtra. He is the only Indian novelist whose work in German has received a LitProm Grant funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss-South Cultural Fund.
Rahaman has penned down nine books, including five novels.
