Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will present the Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy’s annual honorary, book and yuva puraskar awards for 2014 at a function in Bengaluru on January 18, according to its president Roy Castelino.  The function will be held at the Ravindra Kalakshetra at 4.30 p.m., he told presspersons here on Monday.

The chosen are Padma Shenoy (literature category), Gajanana Mahale (folk) and Koni Seshagiri Nayak (arts) for the honorary award. Each of them would be presented with Rs. 10,000, a citation and a memento.

The book award which carries Rs. 5,000, a citation and a memento will be given away to three books, ‘ Devachya Bhagevamthamno’, a collection of stories by Naveen K., Magani ‘Krishna Thukka’, a collection of poems by Nagesh Kumar G. Rao and ‘Gandhichem Parjalik Phudarpan’, a translated work by J.V. Carlo.

The Yuva Puraskar has no cash component. Mementoes and citation would be given away to Ashwin M. Prabhu (music), Prajwal M. Nayak (yoga) and Aruna Nayak (Akashvani artiste), he said.

There would be an interaction with award winners at 10.30 a.m. on the same day. There would be folk dance presentation before the presentation of the awards.

A Konkani cultural festival would be held in the same venue on the previous day, January 17 from 4 p.m.