Noted Hindi poet-novelist and Sahitya Akademi honouree Vinod Kumar Shukla has bagged the inaugural Mathrubhumi Book of the Year 2020 award for his translated book “Blue Is Like Blue”, which deal with common people and their daily struggles. The stories in “Blue Is Like Blue” has been translated into English by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai. The 83-year-old Shukla is regarded the finest living writer in Hindi. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel “Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi” in 1999.
