The 52nd Jnanpith Award for 2016 will be conferred on eminent Modern Bengali Poet Shankha Ghosh. <br/><br/>The decision was taken today in a meeting of Jnanpith Selection Board chaired by noted scholar, writer and critic Prof. Namwar Singh. <br/><br/>Born in 1932, Shankha Ghosh is a prolific poet, critic and academician and an authority on Rabindra Nath Tagore, whose poetic idiom and experiments with various poetic forms mark his greatness as a creative talent. <br/><br/>His poems convey messages but are free from polemics. Adim lata -gulmomay, Murkho Baro, Samajik Noy, Baborer Prarthana are some of his classic creations.