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{{Short description|List of winners of a literary honor in India}}

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{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox award
| name            = Sahitya Akademi Award for English
| image           = Sahitya Akademi Award - Surjit Patar.JPG
| image_size      = 
| alt             = 
| caption         = 
| subheader       = Award for contributions to English literature
| awarded_for     = Literary award in India
| sponsor         = [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Government of India]]
| firstawarded    = 1960 
| lastawarded     = 2024
| reward          = {{INRConvert|1|l}}
| former name     = 
| holder_label    = Most recent winner
| holder          =  
| award1_type     = Total awarded
| award1_winner   = 53
| award2_type     = First winner
| award2_winner   = [[R. K. Narayan]]
| award3_type     = Most Recent winner
| award3_winner   = [[Easterine Kire]]
| website         = [http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#ENGLISH sahitya-akademi.gov.in]
| previous        =
| next            =  
}}
{{Sahitya Akademi Awards}}
The [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] is a literary honor in India awarded by the [[Sahitya Akademi]], India's National Academy of Letters, which 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.<ref name=official>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi_awards.jsp|title=Akademi Awards|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|accessdate=23 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925203857/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi_awards.jsp|archive-date=25 September 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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|2024}}, the award consists of an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cash prize of {{INRConvert|1|l}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 December 2024 |title=Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards-2024.pdf|access-date=9 February 2025 |website=Sahitya Akademi}}</ref>

== Recipients ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|-
! Year
! Book
! Writer
!Image
! Category of Books 
! Ref.
|-
| 1960
| ''[[The Guide]]''
| [[R. K. Narayan]]
|[[File:RK Narayan 2009 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|thumb|76x76px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1964
| ''[[The Serpent and the Rope]]''
| [[Raja Rao]]
|
| Novel
|
|-
| 1965
| ''[[The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin]]''
| [[Verrier Elwin]]
|[[File:Verrier Elwin.jpg|thumb|63x63px]]
| Autobiography
|
|-
| 1967
| ''[[Shadow From Ladakh]]''
| [[Bhabani Bhattacharya]]
|
| Novel
|
|-
| 1969
| ''[[An Artist in Life]]''
| [[Niharranjan Ray]]
|
| Biography
|
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Morning Face]]''
| [[Mulk Raj Anand]]
|[[File:Mulk Raj Anand.jpg|thumb|79x79px]]
| 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]]
|[[File:KRSrinivasaiyengar.jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
| Biography
|
|-
| 1981
| ''Relationship''
| [[Jayanta Mahapatra]]
|[[File:Jayanta Mahapatra.JPG|thumb|57x57px]]
| Poetry
|
|-
| 1982
|  ''[[The Last Labyrinth]]''
| [[Arun Joshi]]
|
| Novel
|
|-
| 1983
| ''Latter-Day Psalms''
| [[Nissim Ezekiel]]
|
| Poetry
|
|-
| 1984
| ''The Keeper of the Dead''
| [[Keki N. Daruwalla]]
|[[File:Keki N. Daruwalla 2016 International Poetry Festival of Medellín.png|thumb|67x67px]]
| Poetry
|
|-
| 1985
| ''Collected Poems''
| [[Kamala Das]]
|[[File:Kamala das.jpg|thumb|63x63px]]
| Poetry
|
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Rich Like Us]]''
| [[Nayantara Sahgal]]
|[[File:Nayantara Sahagal,Indian writer in English language,India.jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1987
| ''Trapfalls In the Sky''
| [[Shiv K. Kumar]]
|
| Poetry
|
|-
| 1988
| ''[[The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth novel)|The Golden Gate]]''
| [[Vikram Seth]]
|[[File:Vikram Seth, in Oxfordshire (cropped).jpg|thumb|71x71px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[The Shadow Lines]]''
| [[Amitav Ghosh]]
|[[File:Amitav Ghosh by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|67x67px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1990
| ''That Long Silence''
| [[Shashi Deshpande]]
|[[File:Shashi Deshpande1.jpg|thumb|67x67px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1991
| ''The Trotter-Nama''
| [[Allan Sealy]]
|[[File:The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Shri Award to Shri Irwin Allan Sealy, at an Investiture Ceremony-II, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 04, 2012.jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra]]''
| [[Ruskin Bond]]
|[[File:Ruskin Bond in Bangalore, India (Jim Ankan Deka photography) (cropped).jpg|thumb|61x61px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1993
| ''After Amnesia''
| [[G. N. Devy]]
|
| Essays
|
|-
| 1994
| ''Serendip''
| [[Dom Moraes]]
|
| Poetry
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Memories of Rain]]''
| [[Sunetra Gupta]]
|[[File:Kulldorff gupta bhattacharya (Sunetra Gupta cropped).jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 1998
| ''Final Solutions and Other Plays''
| [[Mahesh Dattani]]
|
| Drama
|
|-
| 1999
| ''The Collected Poems''
| [[A. K. Ramanujan]]
|
| Poetry
|
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Cuckold (book)|Cuckold]]''
| [[Kiran Nagarkar]]
|[[File:Kiran Nagarkar - Leipziger Buchmesse 2013.jpg|thumb|75x75px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 2001
| ''Rajaji: A Life''
| [[Rajmohan Gandhi]]
|[[File:Rajmohan Gandhi (1960).jpg|thumb|67x67px]]
| Biography
|
|-
| 2002
| ''A New World''
| [[Amit Chaudhuri]]
|[[File:Amit Chaudhuri - Kolkata 2014-01-31 8146.JPG|thumb|75x75px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 2003
| ''[[The Perishable Empire]]''
| [[Meenakshi Mukherjee]]
|[[File:Girish Karnad and Meenakshi Mukherjee - ACLALS 2004 (cropped) - Meenakshi Mukherjee.jpg|thumb|68x68px]]
| Essays
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[The Mammaries of the Welfare State]]''
| [[Upamanyu Chatterjee]]
|
| Novel
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[The Algebra of Infinite Justice]]''
| [[Arundhati Roy]]
|[[File:Arundhati Roy W.jpg|thumb|75x75px]]
| Essays
|
|-
| 2006
| ''The Sari Shop''
| [[Rupa Bajwa]]
|[[File:Rupa Bajwa, Author.jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
| 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]]
|[[File:Esther David.jpg|thumb|75x75px]]
| Novel
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[India after Gandhi]]''
| [[Ramachandra Guha]]
|[[File:Ramachandra Guha at National Law School of India in 2024 (2).jpg|thumb|83x83px]]
| Historical Narrative
|<ref>{{Cite press release|title=POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |date=2011-12-21 |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf |accessdate=2011-12-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf |archivedate=2012-05-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Guha wins it for narrative history|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article2735882.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=21 December 2011}}</ref>
|-
| 2012
| ''These Errors are Correct''
| [[Jeet Thayil]]
|[[File:Jeet Thayil performing at Goobe's Book Republic, Bangalore.jpg|thumb|75x75px]]
| Poetry
|<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news|title=Jeet Thayil among 24 selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/jeet-thayil-among-24-selected-for-sahitya-akademi-awards/article4222947.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=21 December 2012}}</ref>
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Laburnum For My Head]]''
| [[Temsula Ao]]
|[[File:Temsula Ao.jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
| Short stories
|<ref>[http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award2013-e.pdf "Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219002741/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award2013-e.pdf |date=19 December 2013 }}. [[Sahitya Akademi]]. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.</ref>
|-
|2014
|''Trying to Say Goodbye''
|[[Adil Jussawalla]]
|
|Poetry
|
|-
|2015
|''[[Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer]]''
|[[Cyrus Mistry (writer)|Cyrus Mistry]]
|
|Novel
|
|-
|2016
| ''[[Em and the Big Hoom]]''
|[[Jerry Pinto]]
|[[File:Jerry Pinto at KLF-2018.jpg|thumb|50x50px]]
|Novel
|
|-
|2017
| ''The Black Hill''
| [[Mamang Dai]]
|[[File:Mamang Dai.jpg|thumb|68x68px]]
|Novel
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nainar |first=Nahla |date=2024-03-13 |title=Tiruchi-based Tamil writer Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy wins Sahitya Akademi Translation Award |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tiruchi-based-tamil-writer-kannaiyan-daksnamurthy-wins-sahitya-akademi-translation-award/article67946172.ece |access-date=2024-09-14 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
|-
|2018
| ''The Blind Lady's Descendants''
| [[Anees Salim]]
|
| Novel
|<ref name="2018Award">{{Cite web |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards2018.pdf |title=Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2018 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|accessdate=5 December 2018}}</ref>
|-
|2019
| ''[[An Era of Darkness]]''
| [[Shashi Tharoor]]
|[[File:Shashi Tharoor at MEDEF.jpg|thumb|68x68px]]
| Novel (non-fiction)
|<ref name="2019Award">{{Cite web |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards2019.pdf |title=Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2019 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|accessdate=18 December 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2020
| ''When God is a Traveller''
| [[Arundhathi Subramaniam]]
|[[File:Arundhathi Subramaniam bharat-s-tiwari-photography-IMG 4208 January 27, 2018.jpg|thumb|70x70px]]
| Poetry 
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/veerappa-moily-arundhathi-subramania-among-others-to-receive-sahitya-akademi-award-2020-7225734/lite/|title=Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020|work=Indian Express|date=12 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
|2021 
|''Things to Leave Behind'' 
|[[Namita Gokhale]]
|[[File:Namita Gokhale at PubliCon 2012.jpg|thumb|55x55px]]
|Novel
|<ref>{{Cite web|last=K. Sreenivasarao|date=30 December 2021|title=Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 - List of Winners|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards21.pdf|website=Sahitya Akademi}}</ref> 
|-
|2022 
|''[[All the Lives We Never Lived]]'' 
|[[Anuradha Roy (novelist)|Anuradha Roy]]
|
|Novel  
|<ref name="2022 award">{{Cite web |date=22 December 2022 |title=Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards-2022.pdf |access-date=22 December 2022 |website=Sahitya Akademi}}</ref>
|-
|2023
|''Requiem in Raga Janaki''
|[[Neelum Saran Gour|Neelam Gour]]
|[[File:NeelumSaranGour.jpg|thumb|67x67px]]
|Novel
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chakrabarty |first=Sreeparna |date=2023-12-20 |title=Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023 announced |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/sahitya-akademi-awards-for-2023-announced/article67658599.ece |access-date=2023-12-21 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
|-
|2024
|''Spirit Nights''
|[[Easterine Kire]]
|
|Novel
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hindi poet Gagan Gill English writer Easterine Kire among recipients of Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2024/12/18/lst4-awards-sahitya-akademi.html |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2025
|Navtej Sarna
|Crimson Spring
|
|Novel
|
|}

==Further reading==
*[[Sahitya Akademi|Sahitya Akademi Award]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
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{{Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English}}

[[Category:Lists of books|Sahitya Akademi Award Winners For English Language]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English|*]]
[[Category:Indian English|*Sahitya Akademi Award Winners For English Language]]
[[Category:Lists of Sahitya Akademi Award winners|English]]