The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India awarded by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, which 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. 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. , the award consists of an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cash prize of .
Recipients
Year Book WriterImage Category of Books Ref. 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 1976 Jawaharlal Nehru Sarvepalli Gopal Biography 1977 Azadi Chaman Nahal Novel 1978 Fire on the Mountain Anita Desai Novel 1979 Inside the Haveli Rama Mehta Novel 1980 On the Mother K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Biography 1981 Relationship Jayanta Mahapatra Poetry 1982 The Last Labyrinth Arun Joshi Novel 1983 Latter-Day Psalms Nissim Ezekiel Poetry 1984 The Keeper of the Dead Keki N. Daruwalla Poetry 1985 Collected Poems Kamala Das Poetry 1986 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal Novel 1987 Trapfalls In the Sky Shiv K. Kumar Poetry 1988 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth Novel 1989 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh Novel 1990 That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande Novel 1991 The Trotter-Nama Allan Sealy Novel 1992 Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra Ruskin Bond Novel 1993 After Amnesia G. N. Devy Essays 1994 Serendip Dom Moraes Poetry 1996 Memories of Rain Sunetra Gupta Novel 1998 Final Solutions and Other Plays Mahesh Dattani Drama 1999 The Collected Poems A. K. Ramanujan Poetry 2000 Cuckold Kiran Nagarkar Novel 2001 Rajaji: A Life Rajmohan Gandhi Biography 2002 A 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 2006 The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa Novel 2007 Disorderly Women Malathi Rao Novel 2009 Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition Chaturvedi Badrinath Criticism 2010 The Book of Rachel Esther David Novel 2011 India after Gandhi Ramachandra Guha Historical Narrative 2012 These Errors are Correct Jeet Thayil Poetry 2013 Laburnum For My Head Temsula Ao Short stories"Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013" . Sahitya Akademi. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.2014Trying to Say GoodbyeAdil JussawallaPoetry2015Chronicle of a Corpse BearerCyrus MistryNovel2016 Em and the Big HoomJerry PintoNovel2017 The Black Hill Mamang DaiNovel2018 The Blind Lady's Descendants Anees Salim Novel2019 An Era of Darkness Shashi Tharoor Novel (non-fiction) 2020 When God is a Traveller Arundhathi Subramaniam Poetry 2021 Things to Leave Behind Namita GokhaleNovel 2022 All the Lives We Never Lived Anuradha RoyNovel 2023Requiem in Raga JanakiNeelam GourNovel2024Spirit NightsEasterine KireNovel2025Crimson SpringNavtej SarnaNovel (non-fiction)
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