H.M. Pernal chosen for Sahitya Akademi Award 2025 for Konkani

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This is the 4th Sahitya Akademi grant for a Mangaluru-based Konkani writer

Published - March 16, 2026 09:26 p.m. IST - MANGALURU

H.M. Pernal, chosen for the Sahitya Akademi Award 2025 for Konkani, started arsenic a cartoonist successful the aboriginal 1980s earlier establishing himself arsenic a abbreviated communicative writer, poet, and critic. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Renowned Mangaluru-based Konkani writer H.M. Pernal (Henry Mendonca) has been chosen for the Sahitya Akademi Award 2025 for Konkani.

The grant recognises his enactment of literate criticism, Konkani Kavyem: Rupam Ani Rupakam, published successful 2021.

Published - March 16, 2026 09:26 p.m. IST

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