Vishwanath Tripathi awarded Vyas Samman

Eminent Hindi writer Vishwanath Tripathi was today presented the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2013.
Tripathi received the 23rd edition of the annual award for his work 'Vyomkesh Darvesh', a biography of noted Hindi author Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.
Instituted in 1991 by the K K Birla Foundation, the coveted literary prize carries a citation, and a cash amount of Rs 2.5 lakh. Tripathi was also given a souvenir on the occasion.
The award was presented by noted scholar Namvar Singh who also presided over the function.
Vyas Samman is presented for an outstanding literary work in Hindi published during the last 10 years.

82-year-old Tripathi has around 20 publications to his credit which include novels and poetry collections.

Hindi litterateur and award selection committee head Surya Prasad Dikshit introduced 'Vyomkesh Darvesh' at the function.
"'Vyomkesh Darvesh' is a biographical criticism and its speciality is that the personality (Hazari Prasad Dwivedi) that it describes, has been written about by his own student in his (Dwivedi's) own style," Dikshit said.
Namvar, recalling the days spent with Tripathi said,"We both (Namvar and Tripathi) have been students of Dwivedi, but Tripathi was like his son and by writing this book he has paid that due to him.