SOURCE- THE HINDU

Mr. Daksnamurthy won the award for Karungunram, his Tamil translation of Arunachal Pradesh-based author Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill

Tiruchi-based retiree Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy, 62, is still living down the news of winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation this week, for Karungunram, his Tamil version of The Black Hill, a gripping story of tribal communities interwoven with the turbulent journey of a French Jesuit priest in Northeast India, written in English by Arunachal Pradesh-based author Mamang Dai.