Dr Noor Samad Abbalagere’s ‘Vismaya Keeta Prapancha’ wins Muslim Sahitya Prashasti for 2021
Mangaluru: Agriculture officer, researcher and poet Dr Noor Samad Abbalagere’s book ‘Vismaya Keeta Prapancha’ has been selected for the Karnataka Muslim Writers’ Association’s state-level ‘Muslim Sahitya Prashasti’ for 2021 for the best work in Kannada by Muslim writers.
The award, given in memory of the late U T Farid, includes a cash prize of Rs 10,000 and a memento.
The ceremony for the award will be held in Mangaluru in January 2023.
Up to 17 works were contesting for the award. Senior journalist B M Basheer, professor Abdul Razak Ananthady and novelist Fathima Ralia were among the jurors, Association president Umar U H has said in a press release.
Dr Abbalagere is a post-graduate in Agricultural Entomology. He has worked as a scientist in research centres and as an entomologist in multinational companies abroad. He currently is an agriculture officer in the Agriculture Department in Bengaluru. In the last four years, he supported his research work with photography and wrote articles on the insect world in the ‘Sahapaathi’ column of Prajavani.
The award-winning book ‘Vismaya Keeta Prapancha’ is a collection of his research and literary works.
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