Sahitya Akademi Award Winners

Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 

The award's purpose is to recognize and promote excellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. In English, the first Sahitya Akademi Award was conferred in 1960.
 
Year Book Author Category
 
1960 The Guide R. K. Narayan Novel 

1964 The Serpent and the Rope Raja Rao Novel 

1967 Shadow from Ladakh Bhabani Bhattacharya Novel 

1971 Morning Face Mulk Raj Anand Novel 

1975 Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C Chaudhari Biography 

1976 Jawahar Lal Nehru Sarvepalli Gopal Biography 

1977 Azadi Chaman Nahal Novel 

1978 Fire on the Mountain Anita Desai Novel 

1980 On the Mother K. R. S. Iyengar Biography 

1981 Relationship Jayanta Mahapatra Poetry

1982 The Last Labyrinth Arun Joshi Novel 

1983 Latter -Day Psalms Nissim Ezekiel Poetry

1984 The Keeper of the Dead Keki N. Daruwala Poetry 

1985 Collected Poems Kamla Das Poetry 

1986 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal Novel 

1988 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth Novel 

1989 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh Novel 

1990 That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande Novel 

1992 Our Trees still grows in Dehra Ruskin Bond Short Story 

1998 Final Solution and Other Plays Mahesh Dattani Drama 

1999 The Collected Poems A. K. Ramanujan Poetry 

2002 A New World Amit Chaudhury Novel 

2003 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee Essays 

2004 The Mammaries of the Welfare State Upamanyu Chatterjee Novel 

2011 India after Gandhi Ramchandra Guha Historical 

2012 These Errors are Correct Jeet Thayil Poetry 

2014 Trying to say Goodbye Adil Jussawalla Poetry 

2015 Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer Cyrus Mistry Novel 

2016 Em and the Big Hoom Jerry Pinto Novel 

2017 The Black Hill Mamang Dai Novel 

2018 The Blind Lady's Descendants Anees Salim Novel 

2019 An Era of Darkness Shashi Tharoor 

2020 When God is a Traveler Arundhati Subramaniam 

2021 Things to leave behind Namita Gokhale 

2022 All the lives we never lived Anuradha Roy

2023 Sahitya Akademi Award: 'Requiem in Raga Janki' by novelist Neelum Saran Gour wins in English.

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