Laurels for TSE Sub-Editor
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 30 2022:
Sub-Editor of The Sangai Express Lenin Khumancha has been awarded the 'Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2021' for Manipur language presented by Sahitya Akademi New Delhi.
The award was presented to him today by eminent author S Ramakrishnan at a programme held at SRM University in Chennai for his anthology of poems 'Matamgi Manglan' published in 2017.Lenin Khumancha bom in 1988 has published 3 anthologies of poems titled 'Mangdasu Taibangdasu' (2007), 'Machusing-gi Machu' (2011) and 'Matamgi Manglan' (2017) and has coedited two other books.
He has won some other accolades earlier including 'Arambam Ibungohal and Binodkumari Literary Award, 2017' presented by Patriotic Writers Forum and 'Tekcham Kamini Kusha Loidang Ningsing Khorirol Mana, 2019' presented by Khorirol Sandoklup, Wangjing.
It might be mentioned that Yuva Puraskar is an award for writers below the age of 35 years writing in any of the 24 Indian languages presented by Sahitya Akademi.