Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award (Devnagari: साहित्य अकादमी पुरस्कार) is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters ^[1], annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languages^[2]:

Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu^[3].

Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000. The award's purpose is to recognize and promote excellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees goes on for the preceding twelve months.

Other literary honors

Sahitya Akademi Fellowships

They form the highest honor^[4] which the Akademi confers through a system of electing Fellows and Honorary Fellows. (Sahitya Akademi Award is the second-highest literary honor next to a Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.)

Bhasha Samman

Sahitya Akademi gives these special awards to writers for significant contribution to Indian languages other than the above 24 major ones and also for contribution to classical & medieval Literature^[5]. Like the Sahitya Akademi Awards, Bhasha Samman too comprise a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000.

Translation Awards

Established in 1989, Sahitya Akademi annually gives these awards for outstanding translations of major works in other languages into one of the 24 major Indian languages. The awards comprise a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 20,000.

Anand Coomarswamy Fellowships

Named after the Indian writer Ananda Coomaraswamy, the fellowship was started in 1996. It is given to scholars from Asian countries to spend 3 to 12 months in India to pursue a literary project^[6].

Premchand Fellowships

Named after Hindi writer Premchand, the fellowship was started in 2005. It is given to persons of eminence in the field of Culture from SAARC countries.

References

See also

• Indian Literature
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
• List of winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards for writing in Rajasthani language
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Assamese Writers
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Marathi Writers
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Hindi Writers
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Gujarati Writers
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Telugu Writers

External links

• Sahitya Akademi Awards and Fellowships, Official website

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