The Governor of West Bengal, Keshari Nath Tripathi, will honour litterateur Prafulla Roy with the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award for the year 2017 at a function in Raj Bhavan today.

The award ceremony is organised by The Bengal, an NGO represented by prominent individuals of the state from different walks of life.

The Governor, along with author Nabaneeta Dev Sen, president of The Bengal, and HM Bangur, chairman of the NGO, will confer the award on Prafulla Roy.

Agnimitra Paul will host the event, and members of the NGO like Goutam Ghose, Arindam Sil, Jogen Choudhury, Dona Ganguly, June, Bickram Ghosh, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhary and Usha Uthup, among others are expected to attend the event. A few celebs will also perform at the do.

“The Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award was instituted in 2012 by The Bengal, a city-based NGO, following the demise of its immediate past president late Sunil Gangopadhyay. The award, which includes a citation and a cash amount of `2 lakh, is for outstanding work and contribution to Bengali literature,” said culturist Sundeep Bhutoria, honorary general secretary of the NGO.

The award for the years 2012-13 and 2013-14 were conferred on eminent poets Nirendranath Chakraborty and Sankha Ghosh respectively by the then President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. Other recipients of the award were Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay (2014-15) and Joy Goswami (2015-16).

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Kolkata News / by Srishti Dasgupta / TNN / April 19th, 2018