List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English information
Sahitya Akademi Award for English
Award for contributions to English literature
Awarded for
Literary award in India
Sponsored by
Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Reward(s)
₹1 lakh (US$1,300)
First awarded
1960
Last awarded
2022
Highlights
Total awarded
51
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[update], 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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