Chandrakant Keni (1934-3 February 2009)
www.hindu.com, 4 February 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2011 was a Konkani language writer and journalist from

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

. He was the editor of Marathi Daily Rashtramath and Konkani Daily

Sunaparant ''Sunaparant'' ( knn, सुनापरांत,) was a Konkani newspaper in Devanagari script. Based in Goa, India, it operated from 1987 to 2015. It published a special magazine during the Ganesh Chaturthi Ganesh Chaturthi ( ISO: ), a ...

. Keni won

Sahitya Academy Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for his Konkani book ''Ashad Pawali'' Manohararāya Saradesāy
"History of Konkani literature: from 1500 to 1992"
books.google.co.in pp 186-189. Retrieved 18 January 2011

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keni, Chandrakant Journalists from Goa 2009 deaths 1934 births Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Konkani Konkani-language writers Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation