List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English explained

Sahitya Akademi Award for English
Subheader:Award for contributions to English literature
Awarded For:Literary award in India
Sponsor:Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Firstawarded:1960
Lastawarded:2022
Holder Label:Most recent winner
Award1 Type:Total awarded
Award1 Winner:51
Award2 Type:First winner
Award2 Winner:R. K. Narayan
Award3 Type:Most Recent winner
Award3 Winner:Anuradha Roy
Website:sahitya-akademi.gov.in

The Sahitya Akademi Award is the second-highest literary honor in India. The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, aims at "promoting Indian literature throughout the world". The Akademi annually confers on writers of "the most outstanding books of literary merit". The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi.[1] Instituted in 1954, the award recognizes and promotes excellence in writing and acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the preceding twelve months., the award consists of an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cash prize of .[2]

Recipients

YearBookWriterCategory of Books Ref.
1960The GuideR. K. NarayanNovel
1964The Serpent and the RopeRaja RaoNovel
1965The Tribal World of Verrier ElwinVerrier ElwinAutobiography
1967Shadow From LadakhBhabani BhattacharyaNovel
1969An Artist in LifeNiharranjan RayBiography
1971Morning FaceMulk Raj AnandNovel
1975Scholar ExtraordinaryNirad C. ChaudhuriBiography
1976Jawaharlal NehruSarvepalli GopalBiography
1977AzadiChaman NahalNovel
1978Fire on the MountainAnita DesaiNovel
1979Inside the HaveliRama MehtaNovel
1980On the MotherK. R. Srinivasa IyengarBiography
1981RelationshipJayanta MahapatraPoetry
1982The Last LabyrinthArun JoshiNovel
1983Latter-Day PsalmsNissim EzekielPoetry
1984The Keeper of the DeadKeki N. DaruwallaPoetry
1985Collected PoemsKamala DasPoetry
1986Rich Like UsNayantara SahgalNovel
1987Trapfalls In the SkyShiv K. KumarPoetry
1988The Golden GateVikram SethNovel
1989The Shadow LinesAmitav GhoshNovel
1990That Long SilenceShashi DeshpandeNovel
1991The Trotter-NamaI. Allan SealyNovel
1992Our Trees Still Grow in DehraRuskin BondNovel
1993After AmnesiaG. N. DevyEssays
1994SerendipDom MoraesPoetry
1996Memories of RainSunetra GuptaNovel
1998Final Solutions and Other PlaysMahesh DattaniDrama
1999The Collected PoemsA. K. RamanujanPoetry
2000CuckoldKiran NagarkarNovel
2001Rajaji: A LifeRajmohan GandhiBiography
2002A New WorldAmit ChaudhuriNovel
2003The Perishable EmpireMeenakshi MukherjeeEssays
2004The Mammaries of the Welfare StateUpamanyu ChatterjeeNovel
2005The Algebra of Infinite JusticeArundhati RoyEssays
2006The Sari ShopRupa BajwaNovel
2007Disorderly WomenMalathi RaoNovel
2009Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human ConditionChaturvedi BadrinathCriticism
2010The Book of RachelEsther DavidNovel
2011India after GandhiRamachandra GuhaHistorical Narrative[3] [4]
2012These Errors are CorrectJeet ThayilPoetry[5]
2013Laburnum For My HeadTemsula AoShort stories[6]
2014Trying to Say GoodbyeAdil JussawallaPoetry
2015Chronicle of a Corpse BearerCyrus MistryNovel
2016Em and the Big HoomJerry PintoNovel
2017The Black HillMamang DaiNovel[7]
2018The Blind Lady's DescendantsAnees SalimNovel[8]
2019An Era of DarknessShashi TharoorNovel (non-fiction)[9]
2020When God is a TravellerArundhathi SubramaniamPoetry [10]
2021 Things to Leave Behind Namita GokhaleNovel[11]
2022 All the Lives We Never Lived Anuradha RoyNovel
2023Requiem in Raga JanakiNeelam GourNovel[12]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Akademi Awards. Sahitya Akademi. 23 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20100925203857/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi_awards.jsp. 25 September 2010. dead.
  2. Web site: 22 December 2022 . Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 . 22 December 2022 . Sahitya Akademi.
  3. POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011 . . 2011-12-21 . 2011-12-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf . 2012-05-08 .
  4. News: Guha wins it for narrative history. The Hindu. 21 December 2011.
  5. News: Jeet Thayil among 24 selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards. The Hindu. 21 December 2012.
  6. http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award2013-e.pdf "Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013"
  7. News: Nainar . Nahla . 2024-03-13 . Tiruchi-based Tamil writer Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy wins Sahitya Akademi Translation Award . 2024-09-14 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
  8. Web site: Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2018 . Sahitya Akademi. 5 December 2018.
  9. Web site: Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2019 . Sahitya Akademi. 18 December 2019.
  10. News: Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020. Indian Express. 12 March 2021.
  11. Web site: K. Sreenivasarao. 30 December 2021. Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 - List of Winners. Sahitya Akademi.
  12. News: Chakrabarty . Sreeparna . 2023-12-20 . Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023 announced . en-IN . The Hindu . 2023-12-21 . 0971-751X.

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