Bibhuti Patnaik to receive Kendra Sahitya Akademi award for 2015

Bhubaneswar, Dec 17: Eminent novelist and columnist Bibhuti Patnaik will receive the prestigious Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for 2015. Kendra Sahitya Academy announced on Thursday his name for the award for his collection of short stories ‘Mahisashura ra Munha’. Bibhuti Patnaik has written more than 150 books, he won Odisha Sahitya Academy Award and Sarala Award in 1985 and 1999 respectively. He was lecturer of Odia language and literature in 1970 and retired as Reader in 1995.