Indian novelist Vikas Kumar Jha has been chosen for the 2011 International Indu Sharma Katha Samman, for his novel ‘McCluskieganj' . The award will be presented to Jha at a function in the House of Commons here on June 27, Tejendra Sharma, General Secretary of Katha (United Kingdom) said on Monday.
A post-graduate in Sociology, 47-year-old Jha is the editor of Hindi magazine Rang Prasang .
The International Indu Sharma Katha Samman was instituted in the memory of poetess and short story writer Indu Sharma who died of cancer in 1995.
