List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English

Template:Infobox award Template: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.^[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. Template:As of, the award consists of an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cash prize of Template:INRConvert.^[2]

Recipients

Year	Book	Writer	Image	Category of Books	Ref.
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	File:Mulk Raj Anand.jpg	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	Biography
1981	Relationship	Jayanta Mahapatra	File:Jayanta Mahapatra.JPG	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	Poetry
1985	Collected Poems	Kamala Das	File:Kamala das.jpg	Poetry
1986	Rich Like Us	Nayantara Sahgal	File:Nayantara Sahagal,Indian writer in English language,India.jpg	Novel
1987	Trapfalls In the Sky	Shiv K. Kumar		Poetry
1988	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth	File:Vikram Seth, in Oxfordshire (cropped).jpg	Novel
1989	The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	File:Amitav Ghosh by Gage Skidmore.jpg	Novel
1990	That Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande	File:Shashi Deshpande1.jpg	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	Novel
1992	Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra	Ruskin Bond	File:Ruskin Bond in Bangalore, India (Jim Ankan Deka photography) (cropped).jpg	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	Novel
1998	Final Solutions and Other Plays	Mahesh Dattani		Drama
1999	The Collected Poems	A. K. Ramanujan		Poetry
2000	Cuckold	Kiran Nagarkar	File:Kiran Nagarkar - Leipziger Buchmesse 2013.jpg	Novel
2001	Rajaji: A Life	Rajmohan Gandhi	File:Rajmohan Gandhi (1960).jpg	Biography
2002	A New World	Amit Chaudhuri	File:Amit Chaudhuri - Kolkata 2014-01-31 8146.JPG	Novel
2003	The Perishable Empire	Meenakshi Mukherjee	File:Girish Karnad and Meenakshi Mukherjee - ACLALS 2004 (cropped) - Meenakshi Mukherjee.jpg	Essays
2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Upamanyu Chatterjee		Novel
2005	The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy	File:Arundhati Roy W.jpg	Essays
2006	The Sari Shop	Rupa Bajwa	File:Rupa Bajwa, Author.jpg	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	Novel
2011	India after Gandhi	Ramachandra Guha	File:Ramachandra Guha at National Law School of India in 2024 (2).jpg	Historical Narrative	^[3]^[4]
2012	These Errors are Correct	Jeet Thayil	File:Jeet Thayil performing at Goobe's Book Republic, Bangalore.jpg	Poetry	^[5]
2013	Laburnum For My Head	Temsula Ao	File:Temsula Ao.jpg	Short stories	^[6]
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	File:Jerry Pinto at KLF-2018.jpg	Novel
2017	The Black Hill	Mamang Dai	File:Mamang Dai.jpg	Novel	^[7]
2018	The Blind Lady's Descendants	Anees Salim		Novel	^[8]
2019	An Era of Darkness	Shashi Tharoor	File:Shashi Tharoor at MEDEF.jpg	Novel (non-fiction)	^[9]
2020	When God is a Traveller	Arundhathi Subramaniam	File:Arundhathi Subramaniam bharat-s-tiwari-photography-IMG 4208 January 27, 2018.jpg	Poetry	^[10]
2021	Things to Leave Behind	Namita Gokhale	File:Namita Gokhale at PubliCon 2012.jpg	Novel	^[11]
2022	All the Lives We Never Lived	Anuradha Roy		Novel	^[12]
2023	Requiem in Raga Janaki	Neelam Gour	File:NeelumSaranGour.jpg	Novel	^[13]
2024	Spirit Nights	Easterine Kire		Novel	^[14]
2025	Navtej Sarna	Crimson Spring		Novel

References

↑ Akademi Awards. Sahitya Akademi.
↑ Sahitya Akademi Award 2024. Sahitya Akademi(18 December 2024). Retrieved 9 February 2025.
↑ Template:Cite press release
↑ Guha wins it for narrative history. The Hindu(21 December 2011).
↑ Jeet Thayil among 24 selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards. The Hindu(21 December 2012).
↑ "Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013" Template:Webarchive. Sahitya Akademi. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
↑ Tiruchi-based Tamil writer Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy wins Sahitya Akademi Translation Award. The Hindu(2024-03-13). Retrieved 2024-09-14.
↑ Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2018. Sahitya Akademi.
↑ Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2019. Sahitya Akademi.
↑ Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020. Indian Express(12 March 2021).
↑ Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 - List of Winners, K. Sreenivasarao. Sahitya Akademi(30 December 2021).
↑ Sahitya Akademi Award 2022. Sahitya Akademi(22 December 2022). Retrieved 22 December 2022.
↑ Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023 announced. The Hindu(2023-12-20). Retrieved 2023-12-21.
↑ Hindi poet Gagan Gill English writer Easterine Kire among recipients of Sahitya Akademi Awards. The Week. Retrieved 2024-12-18.

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[official-1] Akademi Awards. Sahitya Akademi.

[2] Sahitya Akademi Award 2024. Sahitya Akademi(18 December 2024). Retrieved 9 February 2025.

[3] Template:Cite press release

[4] Guha wins it for narrative history. The Hindu(21 December 2011).

[thehindu-5] Jeet Thayil among 24 selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards. The Hindu(21 December 2012).

[6] "Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013" Template:Webarchive. Sahitya Akademi. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

[7] Tiruchi-based Tamil writer Kannaiyan Daksnamurthy wins Sahitya Akademi Translation Award. The Hindu(2024-03-13). Retrieved 2024-09-14.

[2018Award-8] Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2018. Sahitya Akademi.

[2019Award-9] Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2019. Sahitya Akademi.

[10] Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramania among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award-2020. Indian Express(12 March 2021).

[11] Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 - List of Winners, K. Sreenivasarao. Sahitya Akademi(30 December 2021).

[2022_award-12] Sahitya Akademi Award 2022. Sahitya Akademi(22 December 2022). Retrieved 22 December 2022.

[13] Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023 announced. The Hindu(2023-12-20). Retrieved 2023-12-21.

[14] Hindi poet Gagan Gill English writer Easterine Kire among recipients of Sahitya Akademi Awards. The Week. Retrieved 2024-12-18.

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