Bhartiya Jnanpith's 2008 Navlekhan awards were presented on March 14. The awards, given to first-time young litterateurs, were presented by the Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit.
The winners were poets Ravikant and Umashanker Chaudhary and novelist Vimal Chandra Pandey.
At the awards, poet Ashok Bajpai spoke about the rising popularity of Hindi literature in the past few years, significant in the face of the state of vernacular literature. Jnanpith director Ravinder Kalia spoke of the response to the books published by Jnanpith last year by first time poets and novelists.
The Navlekhan awards were earlier called Yuva awards. While Ravikant's Yatra and Chaudhary's Kehte Hai Tab Shahenshah So Rahe The got a cash prize of Rs 21,000 each, Pandey's novel Darr got him Rs 25,000.
10 other first-time authors were published by Jnanpith this year. Thwey too were felicitated at the ceremony.
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