{"id":62862,"date":"2021-12-09T06:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T06:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=62862"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:18:09","slug":"nilmani-phookan-jr-and-damodar-mauzo-receive-jnanpith-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nilmani-phookan-jr-and-damodar-mauzo-receive-jnanpith-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nilmani Phookan Jr and Damodar Mauzo receive Jnanpith Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assamese Poet&nbsp;<strong>Nilmani Phookan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Damodar Mauzo<\/strong>, a Konkani novelist, received the 56th and 57th Jnanpith Awards for their contributions to Indian literature. &nbsp;The 56th&nbsp;Jnanpith&nbsp;Award went to eminent Assamese poet&nbsp;Nilmani&nbsp;Phookan Jr., while the 57th&nbsp;Jnanpith&nbsp;Award&nbsp;went to Konkani novelist Damodar&nbsp;Mauzo.&nbsp;The country\u2019s highest literary award, the Jnanpith is bestowed on writers for \u201ctheir outstanding contribution to literature\u201d. Jnanpith Award is a literary award presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organization to Indian writers every year. Jnanpith&nbsp;Award was instituted in 1961 and is bestowed only on the Indian writers who write&nbsp;within the&nbsp;Indian languages that are included&nbsp;within the&nbsp;8th schedule of the&nbsp;Constitution of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assamese Poet&nbsp;Nilmani Phookan&nbsp;and&nbsp;Damodar Mauzo, a Konkani novelist, received the 56th and 57th Jnanpith Awards for their contributions to Indian literature. &nbsp;The 56th&nbsp;Jnanpith&nbsp;Award went to eminent Assamese poet&nbsp;Nilmani&nbsp;Phookan Jr., while the 57th&nbsp;Jnanpith&nbsp;Award&nbsp;went to Konkani novelist Damodar&nbsp;Mauzo.&nbsp;The country\u2019s highest literary award, the Jnanpith is bestowed on writers for \u201ctheir outstanding contribution to literature\u201d. Jnanpith Award is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":62863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2506],"tags":[4925,92],"class_list":["post-62862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2021","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115711,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62862\/revisions\/115711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}