Pampa award for poet KS Nissar Ahmed

Bengaluru, Oct 31: Kannada litterateur and thinker Prof. (rtd) K S Nissar Ahmed, has been selected for the Pampa award for the year 2017.

Established in 1987 by Government of Karnataka Pampa award carries a cash prize Rs 3 lakh, a citation and a memento. It is one of the highest literary honors conferred by the Department of Kannada and Culture.

Even though Nissar Ahmed was a professor in Geology, he was attracted towards to Kannada literature thanks to his friendship with Kuvempu. He gradually emerged as one of the greatest poets of Kannada.