List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English

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Sahitya Akademi Award for English
Award for contributions to English literature
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Awarded forLiterary award in India
Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Reward(s)1 lakh (US$1,300)
First awarded1960
Last awarded2022
Highlights
Total awarded51
First winner R. K. Narayan
Most Recent winner Anuradha Roy
Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in
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The Sahitya Akademi Award is the second-highest literary honor in India.[ citation needed ] The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, aims at "promoting Indian literature throughout the world". The Akademi annually confers on writers of "the most outstanding books of literary merit". The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi. [1] Instituted in 1954, the award recognizes and promotes excellence in writing and acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the preceding twelve months. As of 2022, the award consists of an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cash prize of 1 lakh (US$1,300). [2]

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Recipients

R. K. Narayan was the first winner of this award. RK Narayan 2009 stamp of India.jpg
R. K. Narayan was the first winner of this award.
YearBookWriterCategory of Books
1960 The Guide R. K. Narayan Novel
1964 The Serpent and the Rope Raja Rao Novel
1965 The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin Verrier Elwin Autobiography
1967 Shadow From Ladakh Bhabani Bhattacharya Novel
1969 An Artist in Life Niharranjan Ray Biography
1971 Morning Face Mulk Raj Anand Novel
1975 Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C. Chaudhuri Biography
1976Jawaharlal Nehru Sarvepalli Gopal Biography
1977Azadi Chaman Nahal Novel
1978Fire on the Mountain Anita Desai Novel
1979 Inside the Haveli Rama Mehta Novel
1980On the Mother K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Biography
1981Relationship Jayanta Mahapatra Poetry
1982 The Last Labyrinth Arun Joshi Novel
1983Latter-Day Psalms Nissim Ezekiel Poetry
1984The Keeper of the Dead Keki N. Daruwalla Poetry
1985Collected Poems Kamala Das Poetry
1986 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal Novel
1987Trapfalls In the Sky Shiv K. Kumar Poetry
1988 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth Novel
1989 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh Novel
1990That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande Novel
1991The Trotter-Nama I. Allan Sealy Novel
1992 Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra Ruskin Bond Novel
1993After Amnesia G. N. Devy Essays
1994Serendip Dom Moraes Poetry
1996 Memories of Rain Sunetra Gupta Novel
1998Final Solutions and Other Plays Mahesh Dattani Drama
1999The Collected Poems A. K. Ramanujan Poetry
2000 Cuckold Kiran Nagarkar Novel
2001Rajaji: A Life Rajmohan Gandhi Biography
2002A New World Amit Chaudhuri Novel
2003 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee Essays
2004 The Mammaries of the Welfare State Upamanyu Chatterjee Novel
2005 The Algebra of Infinite Justice Arundhati Roy Essays
2006The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa Novel
2007Disorderly Women Malathi Rao Novel
2009Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition Chaturvedi Badrinath Criticism
2010The Book of Rachel Esther David Novel
2011 India after Gandhi [3] Ramachandra Guha [4] Historical Narrative
2012These Errors are Correct Jeet Thayil [5] Poetry
2013 Laburnum For My Head Temsula Ao [6] Short stories
2014Trying to Say Goodbye Adil Jussawalla Poetry
2015 Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer Cyrus Mistry Novel
2016 Em and the Big Hoom Jerry Pinto Novel
2017The Black Hill Mamang Dai Novel
2018The Blind Lady's Descendants Anees Salim [7] Novel
2019 An Era of Darkness Shashi Tharoor [8] Novel (non-fiction)
2020When God is a Traveller Arundhathi Subramaniam [9] Poetry
2021Things to Leave Behind Namita Gokhale [10] Novel
2022 All the Lives We Never Lived Anuradha Roy [2] Novel
2023Requim in Raga Janaki [11] Neelam Gour Novel

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