Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation

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The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy) to writers for translating a work from a foreign language to Malayalam. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. [1] [2]

Awardees

YearTranslationOriginal bookTranslatorImage
1992Bhoothavishtar Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky N. K. Damodaran daamoodr[?] e[?]. ke..png
1993Mahaprasthanathinte MargathiloodeMahaprasthaner Pathe by Prabodh Kumar SanyalK. Ravi Varma
1994French KavithakalMultiple worksMangalattu Raghavan
1995ThavalamillathavarKhanabadosh by Ajit KaurV. D. Krishnan Nambiar
1996Shila PathmamShilapadma by Pratibha Ray P. Madhavan Pillai
1997Oru Pulimarathinte KathaOru Puliya Marathin Kathai by Sundara Ramasami Attoor Ravi Varma aarrrruu[?] rviv[?]mm.jpg
1998Vasanthathinte MurivuThe Wound of Spring by Menon Marath M. Gangadharan M gangadharan 01.jpg
1999Raja Ravi VarmaRaja Ravi Varma by Ranjit Desai K. T. Ravi Varma
2000Manasa VasudhaManabjamin by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Leela Sarkar
2001Dharmapadam Dharmapada Madhavan Ayyappath MadhavanAyyappath.JPG
2002Sastram Charitrathil Science in History by John Desmond Bernal M. C. Nambudiripad M.C.Nambudiripad.jpg
2003Ambedkar Sampoorna KrithikalAmbedkar Complete Works by B. R. Ambedkar M. P. Sadasivan
2004Divine Comedy Divine Comedy by Dante Kilimanoor Ramakanthan
2005DivyamDivya by U. R. Ananthamurthy C. Raghavan
2006ArkkamarashiAkkarmashi by Sharankumar Limbale Kaliyath Damodaran
2007Don Quixote Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Thomas Nadakkal
2008Charakapaitrukam Charaka Samhita by Charaka Muthulakshmi
2009Padinjaran KavithakalMultiple works K. Satchidanandan Sachidanandan.jpg
2010Adinte Virunnu The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Asha Latha
2011 [3] Ka:Ka by Roberto Calasso K. B. Prasanna Kumar
2012 [4] Marubhoomi Désert by J. M. G. Le Clézio S. Sreenivasan
2013 [5] Ulysses Ulysses by James Joyce N. Moosakutty
2014 [6] Chokher Bali Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore Sunil Naliyath
2015 [7] Soundarya Lahari Soundarya Lahari by Adi Shankara Guru Muni Narayana Prasad
2016 [8] Pranayavum MooladhanavumLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the
Birth of a Revolution
by Mary Gabriel
C. M. Rajan
2017 [9] Parvathangalum Mattolikollunnu And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Rama Menon
2018 [10] Swapnangalude Vyakhyanam The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud P. P. K. Pothuval
2019 [11] Gautama Buddhante ParinirvanamBook Three of Old Path White Clouds by Thích Nhất Hạnh K. Aravindakshan
2020 [12] Upekshikkappetta Divasangal Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante Sangeetha Sreenivasan
2021 [13] Kayen Cain by José Saramago Aymanam John
2022 [14] V. Ravikumar
2023 [15] M. M. Sreedharan

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