The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation is an award given every year by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi (Kerala Literary Academy) to writers for translating a work from a foreign language to Malayalam. It is one of the twelve categories of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. [1][2]

Awardees

Year Translation Original book Translator Image
1992 Bhoothavishtar Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky N. K. Damodaran
1993 Mahaprasthanathinte Margathiloode Mahaprasthaner Pathe by Prabodh Kumar Sanyal K. Ravi Varma
1994 French Kavithakal Multiple works Mangalattu Raghavan
1995 Thavalamillathavar Khanabadosh by Ajit Kaur V. D. Krishnan Nambiar
1996 Shila Pathmam Shilapadma by Pratibha Ray P. Madhavan Pillai
1997 Oru Pulimarathinte Katha Oru Puliya Marathin Kathai by Sundara Ramasami Attoor Ravi Varma
1998 Vasanthathinte Murivu The Wound of Spring by Menon Marath M. Gangadharan
1999 Raja Ravi Varma Raja Ravi Varma by Ranjit Desai K. T. Ravi Varma
2000 Manasa Vasudha Manabjamin by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Leela Sarkar
2001 Dharmapadam Dharmapada Madhavan Ayyappath
2002 Sastram Charitrathil Science in History by John Desmond Bernal M. C. Nambudiripad
2003 Ambedkar Sampoorna Krithikal Ambedkar Complete Works by B. R. Ambedkar M. P. Sadasivan
2004 Divine Comedy Divine Comedy by Dante Kilimanoor Ramakanthan
2005 Divyam Divya by U. R. Ananthamurthy C. Raghavan
2006 Arkkamarashi Akkarmashi by Sharankumar Limbale Kaliyath Damodaran
2007 Don Quixote Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Thomas Nadakkal
2008 Charakapaitrukam Charaka Samhita by Charaka Muthulakshmi
2009 Padinjaran Kavithakal Multiple works K. Satchidanandan
2010 Adinte Virunnu The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Asha Latha
2011[3] Ka: Ka by Roberto Calasso K. B. Prasanna Kumar
2012[4] Marubhoomi Désert by J. M. G. Le Clézio S. Sreenivasan
2013[5] Ulysses Ulysses by James Joyce N. Moosakutty
2014[6] Chokher Bali Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore Sunil Naliyath
2015[7] Soundarya Lahari Soundarya Lahari by Adi Shankara Guru Muni Narayana Prasad
2016[8] Pranayavum Mooladhanavum Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the
Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel		 C. M. Rajan
2017[9] Parvathangalum Mattolikollunnu And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Rama Menon
2018[10] Swapnangalude Vyakhyanam The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud P. P. K. Pothuval
2019[11] Gautama Buddhante Parinirvanam Book Three of Old Path White Clouds by Thích Nhất Hạnh K. Aravindakshan
2020[12] Upekshikkappetta Divasangal Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante Sangeetha Sreenivasan
2021[13] Kayen Cain by José Saramago Aymanam John

References

  1. ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award" Archived 26 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Malayalam). Kerala Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Literary Awards" Archived 2012-06-18 at the Wayback Machine. Government of Kerala. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Sahitya Akademi awards announced". The Hindu. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Jayachandran Nair and Santhosh Kumar get Sahithya academy award " Archived 2013-07-15 at the Wayback Machine. Mathrubhumi. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Sahitya Akademi award for Meera's 'Aarachar'". The Times of India. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  6. ^ "2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Trichur: Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  7. ^ "2015 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Trichur: Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  8. ^ "2016 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Trichur: Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi award goes to V J James's 'Nireeswaran'". Malayala Manorama. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Akademi fellowships for Mukundan, Sankara Pillai". The Hindu. 22 December 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  11. ^ "Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships for P. Valsala, N.V.P. Unithiri". The Hindu. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  12. ^ "Akademi fellowship for Sethu, Perumbadavam". The Hindu. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  13. ^ "State Sahitya Akademi fellowships for Vaisakhan, K.P. Sankaran". The Hindu. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
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