Itanagar, Jan. 2 -- Arunachal Pradesh writer Subi Taba has been awarded the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman 2025 for Best Fiction for her acclaimed short story collection, Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains.

The award, instituted by The New Indian Express Group, was presented at a ceremony held in Chennai by the Vice President of India, C P Radhakrishnan, in the presence of eminent jury members, writers and leading cultural figures.

According to the citation issued by The New Indian Express Group, Tales from the Dawn-Lit Mountains: Stories from Arunachal Pradesh was described as "a luminous work of fiction that gives voice to a landscape and people too rarely represented in Indian literature."Rooted in the region's oral traditio...