Itanagar: Padma Shri awardee and a distinguished writer-thinker of Arunachal Pradesh, Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi has been selected for conferment of ‘Jeewan Ram Mungi Devi Goenka Memorial National Award for Excellence in Literature’.
The award that contains a trophy, a citation, a plaque, and a cheque of Rs 2.01 lakh would be presented to the Sahitya Akademi Award winning author in a function to be held at Guwahati on September 25 next.
The national award for excellence in literature is being presented by ‘Jeewan Ram Mungi Devi Goenka Charitable Trust’ – a Shillong-Guwahati based public welfare organisation dedicated to work especially in the arena of literature and culture – every year since 2017.
The previous recipients of the coveted award are eminent literary personalities of Assam -Dr Nagen Saikia and Nirupama Borgohain, according to the Trust.
