Felicitation: Divya Mathur Receives a Coveted Inaugural Award

The first Vanmali Pravasi Katha Samman will be presented to the well-known London based author Divya Mathur during a three-day Vanmali Story Felicitation Ceremony organized by Vanmali Srijan Peeth and AISECT Publication under the aegis of Tagore University-Bhopal. This is on the heel of Mathur honoured with the Indian Government’s top accolade Padambhushan Moturi Satyanarayan Award for her untiring public service and authorship.

Divya Mathur

Vanmali Srijan Peeth, an institution dedicated to the creative contribution and memory of the renowned storyteller, educationist and thinker Late Jagannath Prasad Choubey ‘Vanmali’, awards authors whose works have democratic and human values in the contemporary story scenario. In addition to eight poetry collections, Mathur has eight books of fiction to her credit. To promote UK based authors internationally, she has edited several critically acclaimed anthologies.    

To counter the pandemic mental health and to hold the international community of Hindi writers together as a family, Mathus has organized nearly one hundred programmes since the Lockdown began. A benefit of this is immeasurable and has kept engaged positively a large old audience who have enjoyed hundreds of participating speakers from across the world. Her quiet determination to do good in this world by promoting cultural understanding between mainstream British society and the British South Asian community has received worldwide applause. Mathus is well known for her tireless work in promoting the arts as a mode of interconnection between various sections of society. 

That she receives this award from those benefitting from her exemplary work is a testimony to the respect and affection she commands.