Confluence of literature and art at The Wise Owl Literary Awards

Chandigarh witnessed a confluence of literature and art at The Wise Owl Literary Awards on March 15. Rachna Singh, founding editor of The Wise Owl, delivered the welcome address.

The awards were presented in three categories: Poetry, Fiction, and Non-Fiction. Anthropocene by Sudeep Sen won the Poetry Award, followed by Smitha Sehgal’s How Women Become Poems in Malabar (1st runners-up) and Rochelle Potkar’s Coins in Rivers (2nd runners-up). In Fiction, Shinie Antony’s Eden Abandoned secured the top honour, with The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas and Taxi by Manjula Padmanabhan as runners-up. The award in the Non-Fiction category went to I Am A Runner by Sohini Chattopadhyay, with Sacred Sins by Arun Ezhuthachan and An Inky Paradise by Pradeep Sebastian securing the runners-up positions.

The winners received cheques for Rs 25,000.