Gangadhar National Award For Poetry

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Gangadhar National Award For Poetry
Awarded forSignificant contribution in the field of Literature (poetry).
DateFoundation day of Sambalpur University
Location Sambalpur University, Odisha
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
Presented by Sambalpur University
Reward(s)Cash prize of Rs 50,000, angavastra, citation, a memento and a copy of Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works (An anthology of Gangadhar Meher's Poetry in English translation)
First awarded1991
Last awarded2021
Highlights
First winner Ali Sardar Jafri (1991)
Latest winner K. G. Sankara Pillai (2021)
Total awarded31

Gangadhar National Award For Poetry is a literary award given in the field of literature for poetry by Sambalpur University. It is named after Gangadhar Meher. First award was given to Ali Sardar Jafri in the year 1991. 31 poets have been awarded on various Indian languages until now.

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History

The award was first given in 1991 but the procedure of giving the award was started in 1989.

Procedure

There is a delay of one year due to a long process of choosing an awardee; if the awardee won the prize for 2019 then he gets his award in 2021, and the award of 2017 was given in 2019. It is awarded on the celebration day of Sambalpur University Foundation Day, which is celebrated every year in January.

Cash prize of Rs 50,000, angavastra, citation, a memento and a copy of Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works (An anthology of Gangadhar Meher's Poetry in English translation) is given to receipt of Gangadhar National Award. [1] [2]

Awardees

Year of award announcedName of the awardee (with year of award given) [note 1] LanguageFoundation day
1991 Ali Sardar Jafri (1993)Urdu26th
1992 Nabakanta Barua (1994)Assamese27th
1993 Shakti Chattopadhyay (1995)Bengali28th
1994 Jayanta Mahapatra (1996)English/Odia29th
1995 Kedarnath Singh (1997)Hindi30th
1996 Ayyappa Paniker (1998)Malayalam31st
1997 Sitakant Mahapatra (1999)Odia32nd
1998Nirupama Kaur (2000)Punjabi33rd
1999 Vinda Karandikar (2001)Marathi34th
2000 Ramakanta Rath (2002)Odia35th
2001 K. Satchidanandan (2003)Malayalam36th
2002 Shankha Ghosh (2004)Bengali37th
2003 Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2005)Gujarati38th
2004 Dilip Chitre (2006)Marathi39th
2005 Gulzar (2007)Urdu40th
2006 Nilmani Phookan Jr (2008)Assamese41st
2007 Haraprasad Das (2009)Odia42nd
2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (2010)Urdu43rd
2009 Surjit Patar (2011)Punjabi44th
2010 Rajendra Kishore Panda (2012)Odia45th
2011 Balraj Komal (2013)Urdu46th
2012 Vasdev Mohi (2014)Sindhi47th [3]
2013 Soubhagya Kumar Misra (2015)Odia48th
2014 Subodh Sarkar (2016) [4] [5] Bengali49th
2015 Leeladhar Jagudi (2017) [6] Hindi50th
2016 K Siva Reddy (2018)Telugu51st
2017 Chandrashekhara Kambara (2019) [7] Kannada52nd
2018 Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (2020) [8] [9] [10] Hindi [11] [12] 53rd [13] [14]
2019 Sheen Kaaf Nizam (2021) [15] Urdu54th
2020 Kamal Vora (2022) [16] Gujarati55th
2021 K. G. Sankara Pillai (2023)Malayalam56th

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Notes

  1. The award is given every year on the 1st week of January on the foundation day of Sambalpur University