HYDERABAD: The Sindhi Language Authority (SLA) will award eight best authors of as many genres at a ceremony which will be held later this month.
The spokesman of the SLA Saleem Jarwar informed on Wednesday that the best authors had been selected by a panel of judges who were experts of language and literature. He said the top authors had been selected for the books and works published in the year 2017.
According to him, Dr Shazia Safeer had been selected as the best author for her work ‘A linguistic study of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s Poetry’ in the genre of language and linguistics and Shabnum Gul for her book ‘Sorrows of an empty lap’ in the genre of story. Similarly, the judges selected Nasir Zehrani, Adal Soomro, Yasir Qazi, Abdul Qadir Mangi, Mukhtiar Ahmed Mallah and Inam Shaikh as top authors in the genres of novel, poetry, children’s literature, biography, research and translation, respectively.
The spokesman informed that the SLA’s newly appointed Secretary Shabnum Gul withdrew her nomination saying that she submitted a nomination before she was appointed by the SLA.
