Kannada poet Sanadi bags Pampa award

The Kannada and culture department on Wednesday announced the names of persons selected for awards instituted in various cultural fields for 2015.

Kannada poet BA Sanadi has bagged the prestigious Pampa award. The awards will be given away on November 15 in Bengaluru.

The awardees are: T Chowdaiah award (tabla player Suresh Talwalkar); Venkatappa award for sculpture (Peter Louis); Jakanachari award ( N Pushpamala); Nijaguna Purandara award (Belakawadi Rangaswamy Iyengar, Carnatic music), Sant Shishunal Shariff award (Ratnamala Prakash), Kumaravyas award (Kamalamma Vittalrao), Shanthala Natya award (M Shakuntala), Janapada Shreei award (Sattar Imamsab), Gubbi Veeranna award (R Parameshivan), Dana Chintamani Attimabbe award (Nemichandra), KG Kundanagar Gadinada Sahitya award (MS Sindhur), BV Karanth award (N Ratna) and Sang oli Rayanna award (Jambanna Amarachinta).

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