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Lifetime Translation Award Honors Padma Sharma
4 Jul
Summary
- Padma Ramachandra Sharma receives the first Lifetime Achievement Award for Translation.
- The new award, Padma-Shastri Endowment Award for Translation, carries a Rs 50,000 prize.
- The award was funded by an endowment of Rs 10 lakh from CN Ramachandra.
The Karnataka Sahithya Academy has established its first Lifetime Achievement Award for Translation, recognizing the significant contributions of senior translator Padma Ramachandra Sharma. This inaugural award, known as the Padma-Shastri Endowment Award for Translation, comes with a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
The award was made possible by an endowment of Rs 10 lakh established by English professor CN Ramachandra. He also contributed an additional Rs 50,000 to ensure the award could be presented in the current year, highlighting the academy's expanded focus on translation.
Padma Ramachandra Sharma, born in Mysuru in 1936, has translated twelve prominent Kannada literary works into English. Her notable translations include "Carvalho" and "Kanooru Heggadathi" (published as "The House of Kanooru"). She is the great-granddaughter of BM Srikantaiah, a key figure in the Navodaya literary movement, and was married to the noted poet Ramachandra Sharma.
