Sahitya Akademi award for Aniruddhan Vasudevan

New Delhi April 20: Sahitya Akademi has been announced that the Aniruddhan Vasudevan's has Chosen for the translation prize in English 2016.

While in-depth into matter, he got the prize for the One Part Woman, a translation of Perumal Murugan’s controversial Tamil novel Maadhorubaagan.

The literary organization said in a press statement that "Sahitya Akademi has announced the translation prize 2016 in the English language to Sri Aniruddhan Vasudevan for his book One Part Woman, translation of Sri Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel Maadhorubaagan,".

The prize, which is awarded to books first published during five years immediately preceding the year of the award, consists of a casket containing an engraved copper plaque and a cheque of Rs50,000.

Aniruddhan Vasudevan will be felicitated with the award along with the winners of the Sahitya Akademi award in 23 languages in a ceremony in June this year.