Bihar professor Ratneshwar Mishra has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for translating the book 'Azadi' into Maithili. "It was 2014 when I was assigned the task of Maithili translation and it was completed in 2018…During all these years, I lost my wife, who had always stood by me," said Mishra. The book 'Azadi' was published in 1975.