Correct Option: A

Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator and short story writer from India. He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelance writer. He has also received several awards including 2010 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his collection of short stories, Mohan Das. Prakash was born on January 1, 1952, in the “backward” village of Sitapur, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, India. He raised and received primary education there by a teacher. He graduated in Science and obtained his Master’s degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974. From 1975-76 he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Note : Every year since its inception in 1954, the Sahitya Akademi Award prizes to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major 24n Indian languages recognized by the Akademi. In 2016 Nasira Sharma got Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Parijat.