Literary honour awarded to authors of outstanding literary works in India
Sahitya Akademi Award
Award for individual contributions to Literature
Awarded for
Literary award in India
Sponsored by
Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
First awarded
1954
Last awarded
2023
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Total awarded
60+24(2023)
Website
sahitya-akademi.gov.in
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The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.[1][2]
Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹ 1,00,000.[3] The award's purpose is to recognise and promote excellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the preceding twelve months. The plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi was designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray.[4] Prior to this, the plaque occasionally was made of marble, but this practice was discontinued because of the excessive weight. During the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965, the plaque was substituted with national savings bonds.[5]
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^"Akademi Awards". National Academy of Letters. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^The Hindu. Article on the Awards for 2009
^Coppola, Carlo (1968). "The Sahitya Akademi Awards, 1967". Mahfil. 5 (1): 9–26.
^Coppola, Carlo (1968). "The Sahitya Akademi Award, 1967". Mahfil. 5 (1): 9–26.
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