Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 20 languages, on 12 March 2021.
In the list of winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2020 Seven books of poetry, four of novel, five of short stories, Two Plays, and one each of Memoirs and Epic Poetry are included. Awards in Malayalam, Nepali, Odia and Rajasthani will be announced later.
List of Winners Language-wise:
Language
Title and Genre
Name of the Author
Assamese
Bengsata (Short Stories)
Apurba Kumar Saikia
Bengali
Eka Eka Ekashi (Memoirs)
Sankar (Manishankar Mukhopadhyay)
Bodo
Gwthenay Lamayao Gwdan Agan (Short Stories)
(Late) Dharanidhar Owari
Dogri
Baba Jitmal (Play)
Gian Singh
English
When God Is a Traveller (Poetry)
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Gujarati
Banaras Diary (Poetry)
Harish Meenashru
Hindi
Tokri Mein Digant ‘Their Gatha’: 2014 (Poetry)
Anamika
Kannada
Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam (Epic Poetry)
M. Veerappa Moily
Kashmiri
Tilasm-e-Khanabadosh (Short stories)
(Late) Hiday Koul Bharti
Konkani
Yugaparivarthanancho Yatri (Poetry)
R. S. Bhaskar
Maithili
Gachh Roosal Achhi (Short Stories)
Kamalkant Jha
Manipuri
Malangbana Kari Hai (Poetry)
Irungbam Deven
Marathi
Udya (Novel)
Nanda Khare
Punjabi
Aam Khass (Short stories)
Gurdev Singh Rupana
Sanskrit
Vaishali (Novel)
Mahesh Chandra Sharma Gautam
Santali
Gur Dak Kasa Dak (Poetry)
Rupchand Hansdah
Sindhi
Jehad (Plays)
Jetho Lalwani
Tamil
Sellaatha Panam (Novel)
Imaiyam
Telugu
Agniswaasa (2015-17) Poetry
Nikhileswar
Urdu
Amawas Mein Khwab (Novel)
Hussain-ul-Haque
About:
Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters was established in 1954 by the Govt of India.
Every year since its inception in 1954, the Sahitya Akademi Award prizes to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages recognised by the Akademi. The first Awards were given in 1955.