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{{Short description|Literary award}}{{Infobox award
| name = Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation
| native_name = കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡ് (വിവർത്തനം)
| presenter = [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]]
| sponsor = Government of Kerala
| country = {{flag icon|India}} [[India]]
| reward = Cash prize (₹25,000), Certificate, and Plaque
| website = {{URL|http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org}}
}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
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 [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award#Awards|twelve categories]] of the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]].{{hsp}}<ref>[http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/Mal_Awards.htm "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426134403/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/Mal_Awards.htm |date=26 April 2013 }} (in Malayalam). [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]]. Retrieved 28 April 2014.</ref><ref>[http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3065&Itemid=2379 "Literary Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618062155/http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3065&Itemid=2379 |date=2012-06-18 }}. [[Government of Kerala]]. Retrieved 28 April 2014.</ref>

==Awardees==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Translation !! Original book !! Translator !! Image
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| 1992 || ''Bhoothavishtar'' || ''[[Demons (Dostoyevsky novel)|Demons]]'' by [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] || [[N. K. Damodaran]] || [[File:ദാമോദരൻ എൻ. കെ..png|80px]]
|-
| 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]] || [[File:ആറ്റൂർ_രവിവർമ്മ.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 1998 || ''Vasanthathinte Murivu'' || ''The Wound of Spring'' by [[Menon Marath]] || M. Gangadharan || [[File:M gangadharan 01.jpg|80px]]
|-
|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'' || ''[[Dhammapada|Dharmapada]]'' || [[Madhavan Ayyappath]] || [[File:MadhavanAyyappath.JPG|80px]]
|-
| 2002 || ''Sastram Charitrathil'' || ''[[Science in History]]'' by [[John Desmond Bernal]] || [[M. C. Nambudiripad]] || [[File:M.C.Nambudiripad.jpg|80px]]
|-
|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]] || [[File:Sachidanandan.jpg|80px]]
|-
| 2010 || ''Adinte Virunnu'' || ''[[The Feast of the Goat]]'' by [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] || Asha Latha ||
|-
| [[2011 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2011]]<ref name=2011award>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/sahitya-akademi-awards-announced/article3715418.ece | title=Sahitya Akademi awards announced | newspaper=The Hindu | date=2 August 2012 | access-date=7 August 2019 }}</ref> || ''Ka:'' || ''Ka'' by [[Roberto Calasso]] || [[K. B. Prasannakumar]] || [[File:KB_Prasannakumar.JPG|80px]]
|-
| [[2012 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2012]]<ref name=2012award>[http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/story.php?id=137916 "Jayachandran Nair and Santhosh Kumar get Sahithya academy award "] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715223147/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/story.php?id=137916 |date=2013-07-15 }}. ''Mathrubhumi''. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2014.</ref> || ''Marubhoomi'' || ''[[Désert (novel)|Désert]]'' by [[J. M. G. Le Clézio]] || S. Sreenivasan ||
|-
| [[2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2013]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Sahitya-Akademi-award-for-Meeras-Aarachar/articleshow/45583043.cms|title=Sahitya Akademi award for Meera's 'Aarachar'|newspaper=The Times of India|date=20 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014}}</ref> || ''Ulysses'' || ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' by [[James Joyce]] || N. Moosakutty ||
|-
| [[2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2014]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=2014 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202014_new.pdf |location=[[Trichur]] |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=29 February 2016 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref> || ''Chokher Bali'' || ''[[Chokher Bali (novel)|Chokher Bali]]'' by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] || [[Sunil Naliyath]] ||
|-
| [[2015 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2015]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=2015 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/08-08-2016/Award2015.pdf |location=[[Trichur]] |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=28 March 2017 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref> || ''Soundarya Lahari'' || ''[[Soundarya Lahari]]'' by [[Adi Shankara]] || Guru Muni Narayana Prasad ||
|-
| [[2016 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2016]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=2016 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/07-01-2018/Award_2016_new.pdf |location=[[Trichur]] |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=21 February 2018 |access-date=12 April 2018}}</ref> || ''Pranayavum Mooladhanavum'' || ''Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the<br>Birth of a Revolution'' by [[Mary Gabriel (author)|Mary Gabriel]] || C. M. Rajan ||
|-
| [[2017 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2017]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2019/01/23/kerala-sahitya-akademi-award-v-j-james-nireeswaran.html |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi award goes to V J James's 'Nireeswaran' |newspaper=[[Malayala Manorama]] |date=23 January 2019 |accessdate=31 July 2022}}</ref> || ''Parvathangalum Mattolikollunnu'' || ''[[And the Mountains Echoed]]'' by [[Khaled Hosseini]] || [[Rema Menon]] ||
|-
| [[2018 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2018]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/akademi-fellowships-for-mukundan-sankara-pillai/article30369408.ece |title=Akademi fellowships for Mukundan, Sankara Pillai |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=22 December 2019 |accessdate=31 July 2022}}</ref> || ''Swapnangalude Vyakhyanam'' || ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' by [[Sigmund Freud]] || P. P. K. Pothuval ||
|-
| [[2019 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2019]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/kerala-sahitya-akademi-fellowships-for-p-valsala-nvp-unithiri/article33843100.ece |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships for P. Valsala, N.V.P. Unithiri |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=15 February 2021 |accessdate=31 July 2022}}</ref> || ''Gautama Buddhante Parinirvanam'' || Book Three of ''Old Path White Clouds'' by [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]] || K. Aravindakshan ||
|-
| [[2020 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2020]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/akademi-fellowship-for-sethu-perumbadavam/article35960287.ece |title=Akademi fellowship for Sethu, Perumbadavam |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=17 August 2021 |accessdate=31 July 2022}}</ref> || ''Upekshikkappetta Divasangal '' || ''Days of Abandonment'' by [[Elena Ferrante]] || [[Sangeetha Sreenivasan]] ||
|-
| [[2021 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2021]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/state-sahitya-akademi-fellowships-for-vaisakhan-kp-sankaran/article65689827.ece |title=State Sahitya Akademi fellowships for Vaisakhan, K.P. Sankaran |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=27 July 2022 |accessdate=31 July 2022}}</ref> || ''Kayen'' || ''[[Cain (novel)|Cain]]'' by [[José Saramago]] || [[Aymanam John]] ||
|-
| [[2022 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2022]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/kerala-sahitya-akademi-awards-announced-v-shinilal-s-sambarkkakranthi-wins-best-novel-1.8688660 |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards announced, V Shinilal's 'Sambarkkakranthi' best novel |newspaper=Mathrubhumi |date=30 June 2023 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref> || || || V. Ravikumar ||
|-
| [[2023 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2023]]<ref name="2023 Award">{{Cite news |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships announced |language= |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2024/Jul/26/kerala-sahitya-akademi-fellowships-announced |newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]] |date=26 July 2024 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> || || || M. M. Sreedharan ||
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| [[2024 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2024]]<ref>{{Cite news |title=Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards: G R Indugopan's Aano wins best novel |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2025/06/26/kerala-sahitya-akademi-awards-m-swaraj.html |access-date=23 November 2025 |newspaper=Malayala Manorama |date=26 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref> || ''Ente Rajyam, Ente Shareeram'' || ''El país bajo mi piel'' by [[Gioconda Belli]] || Chinju Prakash ||
|}

==References==
<references />
{{Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award}}
{{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}
[[Category:Awards established in 1992]]
[[Category:Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards]]
[[Category:Malayalam literary awards]]
[[Category:Translation awards]]
[[Category:1992 establishments in Kerala]]

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