Srinagar
Prominent Kashmiri writer and broadcaster Mushtaq Ahmad Mushtaq has bagged this year’s Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmir language for his collection of short stories “Aakh”.

Mushtaq said it was a great honour to receive the award. “It is a great honour. Aakh is a collection of 18 short stories and was chosen from 13 books that had reached the final stage for the Kashmiri language,” said Mushtaq.

The book published in 2012 has been widely appreciated in literary circles and was conferred the best book award in Kashmiri by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages in 2014.

Mushtaq is a well-known broadcast journalist and has also bagged ‘Akashwani Annual Award’ and ‘State Award for an outstanding media professional’. He is currently heading the Regional News Unit at Radio Kashmir, Srinagar.

He has served at Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar, for nine years apart from having worked in other media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as an Indian Information Service officer.