Literary awards

Описание: 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.

1960-The Guide R. K. Narayan Novel
1964-The Serpent and the Rope Raja Rao
1965-The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin Verrier Elwin Autobiography
1967-Shadow From Ladakh Bhabani Bhattacharya
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
2014 Trying to Say Goodbye Adil Jussawalla Poetry
2015 Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer Cyrus Mistry Novel
2016 Em and the Big Hoom Jerry Pinto Novel
2017 The Black Hill Mamang Dai Novel
2018 The Blind Lady's Descendants Anees Salim Novel
2019 An Era of Darkness Shashi Tharoor Novel (non-fiction)
2020 When God is a Traveller Arundhathi Subramaniam Poetry
2021 Things to Leave Behind Namita Gokhale Novel
2022 All the Lives We Never Lived Anuradha Roy Novel
2023 Requiem in Raga Janaki Neelam Gour Novel
2024 Spirit Nights Easterine Kire Nov