New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday said the demise of renowned Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla has caused an irreparable loss to the literary world and offered heartfelt condolences to his family members and countless admirers.

Shukla, Jnanpith Award recipient, died on Tuesday evening due to age-related ailments at a government hospital in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. He was 88.

"The demise of Shukla, who enriched prose and poetry immensely through his intuitive and powerful compositions, has caused an irreparable loss to the literary world," Murmu said in a post in Hindi on X.

The sentiment of empathy and concern for the communities and individuals left behind and becoming despondent imparts a special meaningfulness to his writing, she said.