Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation
Native name	കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡ് (വിവർത്തനം)
Sponsored by	Government of Kerala
Country	India
Presented by	Kerala Sahitya Akademi
Rewards	Cash prize (₹25,000), Certificate, and Plaque
Website	www.keralasahityaakademi.org

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

Year	Translation	Original book	Translator	Image
1992	Bhoothavishtar	Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky	N. K. Damodaran
1993	Mahaprasthanathinte Margathiloode	Mahaprasthaner Pathe by Prabodh Kumar Sanyal	K. Ravi Varma
1994	French Kavithakal	Multiple works	Mangalattu Raghavan
1995	Thavalamillathavar	Khanabadosh by Ajit Kaur	V. D. Krishnan Nambiar
1996	Shila Pathmam	Shilapadma by Pratibha Ray	P. Madhavan Pillai
1997	Oru Pulimarathinte Katha	Oru Puliya Marathin Kathai by Sundara Ramasami	Attoor Ravi Varma
1998	Vasanthathinte Murivu	The Wound of Spring by Menon Marath	M. Gangadharan
1999	Raja Ravi Varma	Raja Ravi Varma by Ranjit Desai	K. T. Ravi Varma
2000	Manasa Vasudha	Manabjamin by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay	Leela Sarkar
2001	Dharmapadam	Dharmapada	Madhavan Ayyappath
2002	Sastram Charitrathil	Science in History by John Desmond Bernal	M. C. Nambudiripad
2003	Ambedkar Sampoorna Krithikal	Ambedkar Complete Works by B. R. Ambedkar	M. P. Sadasivan
2004	Divine Comedy	Divine Comedy by Dante	Kilimanoor Ramakanthan
2005	Divyam	Divya by U. R. Ananthamurthy	C. Raghavan
2006	Arkkamarashi	Akkarmashi by Sharankumar Limbale	Kaliyath Damodaran
2007	Don Quixote	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes	Thomas Nadakkal
2008	Charakapaitrukam	Charaka Samhita by Charaka	Muthulakshmi
2009	Padinjaran Kavithakal	Multiple works	K. Satchidanandan
2010	Adinte Virunnu	The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa	Asha Latha
2011 [3]	Ka:	Ka by Roberto Calasso	K. B. Prasannakumar
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 Mooladhanavum	Love 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	Rema Menon
2018 [10]	Swapnangalude Vyakhyanam	The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud	P. P. K. Pothuval
2019 [11]	Gautama Buddhante Parinirvanam	Book 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
2024 [16]	Ente Rajyam, Ente Shareeram	El país bajo mi piel by Gioconda Belli	Chinju Prakash

References

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