Hari Dutt Sharma is a Sanskrit poet who won President certificate of honor in 2015 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2007 for his work of poetry, Lasallatika.
[1] He was awarded with "Mahrishi Vyas Puruskar" from Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthaan, and awarded by the then Governor of Uttar Pradesh on 7-Feb-2018.
He was born in rangas village of Himachal Pradesh.
He was earlier Professor and Head of the Sanskrit Department at the University of Allahabad.
[2][3] when he retired in June 2013, he was the visiting professor of Sanskrit at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.