Sahitya Akademi Award
| Sahitya Akademi Award | ||
| Award Information | ||
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| Category | Literature (Individual) | |
| Instituted | 1954 | |
| First Awarded | 1954 | |
| Last Awarded | 2011 | |
| Awarded by | Sahitya Akademi, Government of India | |
| Description | Literary award in India |
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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
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.
Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 (in 2009 Govt. of India has announced to increase the amount to Rs. 100,000).[2] 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.
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[edit] Other literary honours
[edit] Sahitya Akademi Fellowships
They form the highest honor 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).
[edit] 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. Like the Sahitya Akademi Awards, Bhasha Samman too comprise a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 1,00,000.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- Indian Literature
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bodo
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Dogri
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Kannada
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Konkani
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Malayalam
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Manipuri
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Marathi
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Nepali
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Oriya
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Punjabi
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Rajasthani
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Tamil
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Telugu
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu
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[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sahitya Akademi Award |
- Sahitya Akademi Awards and Fellowships, Official website
- "Sahitya Akademi Awards listings". Sahitya Akademi, Official website. http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi_awards.jsp.
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