| Sahitya Akademi Award for English | |
|---|---|
| Award for contributions to English literature | |
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| 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 |
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]
| Year | Book | Writer | Category of Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | The Guide | R. K. Narayan | Novel |
| 1964 | The Serpent and the Rope | Raja Rao | Novel |
| 1965 | The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin | Verrier Elwin | Autobiography |
| 1967 | Shadow From Ladakh | Bhabani Bhattacharya | Novel |
| 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 | I. 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[3] | Ramachandra Guha[4] | Historical Narrative |
| 2012 | These Errors are Correct | Jeet Thayil[5] | Poetry |
| 2013 | Laburnum For My Head | Temsula Ao[6] | 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[7] | Novel |
| 2019 | An Era of Darkness | Shashi Tharoor[8] | Novel (non-fiction) |
| 2020 | When God is a Traveller | Arundhathi Subramaniam[9] | Poetry |
| 2021 | Things to Leave Behind | Namita Gokhale[10] | Novel |
| 2022 | All the Lives We Never Lived | Anuradha Roy[2] | Novel |
| 2023 | Requim in Raga Janaki[11] | Neelam Gour | Novel |
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