Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Sahitya Academy Monday announced that eminent story writer Binapani Mohanty will get Atibadi Jaganath Das Award, the highest award of the Academy for the year 2019.

The Academy also announced the name of 15 veteran literatures for felicitation . Minaketan Purahit, Goura Chandra Panda, Padmanabha Sahoo, Indulata Mohanty, Bibhuti Bhusan Patnaik, Sailendra Kumar Mohapatra, Niranjan Padhi, Srikanta Charan Patra, Kabibara Parida Trinath Nayak, Manindra Mohanty, Rabi Mohapatra, Sarat Chandra Kar, Braja Das and Akhilananda Beberta will be felicitate by the Academy.

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