Feminist publisher and author Urvashi Butalia will be awarded the Goethe Medal, an official honour from the government of Germany, reported Scroll.in.
She will receive the award on 28 August at the annual Goethe Institue Awards in Germany's Weimar.
The medal is given in recognition of those who have not only displayed "exceptional competence" in German, but have also worked for international cultural exchange.
New-Delhi based Butalia co-founded India's first feminist publication house Kali for Women in 1984, and has also co-founded Zubaan in 2003. Well-known in literary and academic circles, Butalia has long been involved in various women's movement across the country.
Over the years Kali for Women established itself as leading publisher of women’s writing, feminist writings and gender in South Asia.
According to Scroll.in, Goethe-Institute described her book, The Other Side of Silence as,
One of the most influential books in South Asian studies to be published in recent decades...It emphasises the role of violence against women in the collective experience of tragedy.
Among the many awards she has received, include the the Pandora Award for Women in Publishing, the French Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres and the Padma Shri by the Indian government.
Seagull Books publisher Naveen Kishore, actor Mohan Agashe, and poet Alokeranjan Dasgupta are among the Indians who have received the award in the past.
(With inputs from Scroll.in)
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