ITANAGAR, 28 May: The Asom Sahitya Sabha (ASS) has announced that the Lummer Dai Sahitya Bota (Award)-2021 will be conferred on Sahitya Akademi awardee and Padma Shri awardee Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, who is also the president of the Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society.
ASS secretary-general Jadav Sharma shared this news with Thongchi on Saturday evening.
The prestigious award was instituted in honour of ‘Sahitya Surya’ late Lummer Dai, the doyen of literature and journalism in Arunachal Pradesh, by the apex literary body of Assam in 2009.
Thongchi will receive the award in a function at the district library in Mangaldoi, Assam, on the 82nd birth anniversary of late Dai on 1 June.
The award carries a citation, a memento, and Rs 25,000 in cash.