All India Poetry Prize

Selection

The All India Poetry Prize is awarded through an open competition referred to as the All India Poetry Competition or the National Poetry Competition. ^[1] The selection process involves a jury that anonymously evaluates submissions. ^[2]

Jury Composition

The jury consists of poets. Past jury members include Peter Forbes, Lawrence Sail, Ruth Padel, Sitakant Mahapatra, J. P. Das, Keshav Malik, Anna Sujatha Mathai, and Nissim Ezekiel. ^[3]

Sponsorship

From the prize's inception in 1988 until 2001, the British Council sponsored the awards. Since 2013, they have been co-sponsored by the Government of India under the Ministry of Human Resources. Awards were not presented between 2001 and 2013. ^[1]

List of winners

• 1988: Vijay Nambisan for the poem "Madras Central"
• 1990: Rukmini Bhaya Nair for the poem "Kali"
• 1991: Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya for the poem "Punarnava" (meaning "The Ever Renewing")
• 1993: Shampa Sinha for "Siesta," and Tarun Cherian for "A Writer's Prayer"
• 1994: Anju Makhija for "A Farmer's Ghost," and Smita Agarwal for "Our Foster Nurse of Nature is Repose"
• 1995: Tabish Khair ^[2] for "Birds of North Europe," and Gopi Kottoor for "The Coffin Maker"
• 1997: Ranjit Hoskote for "Portrait of a Lady," and Gopi Kottoor for "Digging..."
• 1998: First Prize - K Srilata for "In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick," and Revathy Gopal for "Lines on Meeting a Cousin, Long Lost"
• 2000: Shahnaz Habib for "Of Hypocrisy and Cheekbones," and Revathy Gopal for "I Would Know You Anywhere"
• 2013: Mathew John for "Another Letter from Another Father to Another Son," Tapan Kumar Pradhan for "The Buddha Smiled"
• 2014: Probal Mazumdar for "Grand Mother," Vidya S. Panicker for "A Suitcase Too Small," and N Madani Syed for "A Song to Sing"
• 2015:
  • (English): Sukanya Shaji for "Pilgrimage," ^[4] Debrup Bhattacharya for "Star's Demise," and K. Priyamvada for "Fireflies"
  • (Hindi): Parul Gupta for "भूकंप" (Bhukamp, Amit Bisht for "एक किसान का सुईसाइड नोट" (Ek Kisan Ka Suicide Note), Rajesh Ahuja for "मन मंथन" (Man Manthan)
• 2016:
  • (English): Yatiraj Ramanujam for the poem "A Sudden Voyage," Shrestha Ghosh for "A Dream," Maitri S. Shah for "Violence of the Truth"
  • (Hindi): Gaurav J. Pathania for "प्लास्टिक"(Plastic), Neelam Saxena for "ख़ुशी" (Khushi), and Monika Kalana for "तुम्हारे लौट आने की ख़ुशी में" (Tumhare Laut Ane Ki Khushi Men)
• 2017: Gopi Kottoor ^[5]

See also

• Sahitya Akademi Award
• National Poetry Competition

References

1. "List of Award Winners".
2. "Tabish Khair | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
3. Chaudhuri, Rosinka, ed. (2016-02-29). "A History of Indian Poetry in English" (PDF). doi:10.1017/cbo9781139940887.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. "Meet Sukanya Shaji – FII's Featured Writer Of December 2020". Feminism in India. 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
5. "Gopikrishnan Kottoor bags All-India Poetry Prize 2017". OnManorama. 20 November 2017.