Venue:- Online
Speaker:- Padma Shri Dr. Ganesh Devy
Date:- 08th June 2020
Time:- 11:30 AM
About Speaker: Padma Shri, Shri Ganesh N. Devy
Padma Shri, Shri Ganesh N. Devy is a thinker, cultural activist and institution builder, best known for the People’s Linguistic Survey of India and the Adivasi Academy created by him.
Mainly he writes in three languages—Marathi, Gujarati and English. He has written and edited close to ninety influential books in areas as diverse as Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Education, Linguistics and Philosophy.
G. N. Devy was educated at University of Leeds, UK. Among his many academic assignments, he held fellowships at Leeds University and Yale University.
Awards:
G. N. Devy has received several Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was awarded Padma Shri on 26 January 2014. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award (1993) for After Amnesia, and the SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award (2001) for his work with denotified tribals. He was given the reputed Prince Claus Award (2003) for his work for the conservation of tribal arts and craft. His Marathi book Vanaprasth received eight awards including the Durga Bhagwat Memorial Award and the Maharashtra Foundation Award. He won the 2011 Linguapax Prize for his work for the preservation of linguistic diversity.