Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for S L Bhyrappa and C Narayana Reddy

Sahitya Akademi Fellowship : The Sahitya Akademi has honored famous Kannada writer S L Bhyrappa and  Telugu poet C Narayana Reddy by selecting them as its fellows.

The honour is limited to only 21 people at any given time, a press release from the academy said.

S L Bhyrappa is one of the best selling  Author in Kannada and He is regarded as one of India's foremost modern day writers.

During his literary career of more than five decades, he has written 25 novels, an autobiography and five books on philosophy. Many of his works have been translated into other Indian languages and English. Many of his novels were made into films, which also won wide critical acclaim.

He is the recipient of many awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award and Saraswati Samman.

C Narayana Reddy is a well-known Telugu poet and educational administrator.

He is deeply interested in medieval Urdu poetic traditions and more particularly in the ghazal form. He has imbibed influences of Urdu poetry in his Telugu poems. His poems are characterized by universal values of humanism, hope and well-being of the people.

His work Viswambara, which was translated into three languages, won him the Jnanpith Award in 1988. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Telugu in 1973.

The Government of India honored him with the Padma Shri in 1977 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1992. There have been 19 works on him, all acquired by the Library of Congress.