State author gets Sahitya Akademi award
Ranchi: Jharkhand's young tribal author, Parvati Tirkey has been named for the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for her Hindi poetry collection 'Phir Ugna'. A formal notification in this regard was issued by Sahitya Akademi on Wednesday along with other winners.
Tirkey is a resident of Gumla district and is working as an assistant professor at Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav College in Ranchi. She is a PhD in Hindi from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh.
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