This year, Amar Ujala’s highest word award ‘Akashdeep’ for writing and overall contribution to life will be given to eminent story writer Shekhar Joshi in Hindi and Pratibha Ray, an eminent writer of Odia in non-Hindi languages.
Rai was given the honour for enriching Indian literary culture through extraordinary Odia creation.
Ray's works have been translated into various Indian languages, English, and other foreign languages. Her thrust being psychosocial analysis, Pratibha grapples with issues of contemporary relevance, dealing with a variety of subject matters starting from mythology, history, science, tribal culture, rural and urban life, politics, and contemporary global issues.
She tries to bring different levels of perception into one structure. Ray’s work is unsparing in its indictments of social evils, injustice and corruption in narrow lanes of power and politics.
Amar Ujala Shabd Samman 2022 Shekhar Joshi Pratibha Ray Got Akashdeep Award Poonam Wasam Sudhir Chandra Chandan Pandey Anushakti Singh And Ashutosh Garg Also Awarded - All Sarkari Naukari