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The Pampa Award (or Pampa Prashasti) is a literary award in the Indian state of Karnataka. The award was established in 1987 by the government of Karnataka. It is the highest literary honor conferred by the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka State, and recognises works written in the Kannada language (1 of the 22 official languages of India).

The award is named after the first Kannada poet Adikavi Pampa. The award originally comprised a cash prize of ₹1 lakh (US$1,200), a shawl, a citation and a memento. The cash prize was increased to ₹3 lakh (US$3,600) in 2008. Prior to 1996, the awards were given for a best single work by a Kannada writer. Since then, the award has been given to writers for their lifetime contribution to the Kannada literature. The Pampa Prashasti is presented by the Chief Minister, during the Kadambotsava, a cultural festival held annually in Pampa's hometown of Banavasi in Uttara Kannada district.

Since its inception in 1987, the award has been given to a more than 30 individuals. Kuvempu was the first recipient of the award who was honored for his work Sri Ramayana Darshanam (1949), a modern rendition of the Indian epic Ramayana. In 2015, Chandrashekhar Patil returned his award as a sign of protest against the assassination of the scholar M. M. Kalburgi. The most recent recipient is Na D'Souza, who was awarded in 2019 for his lifetime contribution.

Recipients

References

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30. "ಪ್ರೊ. ಷ. ಶೆಟ್ಟರ್ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಪಂಪ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ" [Pampa award for Prof. S. Shettar] (in Kannada). Vijayakarnataka.com. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
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Further reading

• Chari, C (1994). The Book Review, Volume 18. Perspective Publications.
• Viswanatha, Vanamala (2000). Routes: representations of the West in short fiction from South India in translation. Macmillan. ISBN 9780333934111.
• Indian Literature, Volume 45, Issues 1–3. Sahitya Akademi. 2001.

External links

• Pampa Award recipients (in Kannada). Karnataka Sahitya Academy

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