Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024: Full List of Winners

The Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024 have been announced to honor 21 writers and poets from different languages ​​across India. The awards recognize outstanding work in categories such as fiction, poetry, short stories, essays, drama and literary criticism.

Hindi poet Gagan Gill wins award for his collection of poems Major Jab Tak al-Baharwhile British author Easterling Keele won the award for her novel spirit night.

category

language

winner

Title of work

poetry

Hindi

Gagan Gill

Main Jab Tak Aai Bahar

punjabi

Paul Call

Sun Gunvanta Sun Budhivanta: Itihaasnama Punjab

Malayalam

Jayakumar

Manipuri

Haubam Satyabhati Devi

gujarati

Dilip Jhaveri

Assamese

Samir Tanti

rajasthan

Mukut Maniraj

Sanskrit

Deepak Kumar Sharma

novel

English

eastline kire

spirit night

Kashmir

Sohan Kaur

psychiatric ward

Hakata

Arun Raja

Sweeney Takai

short story

Nepali

Yuva Baral

chichimila

sindhi

Hundraj Balwani

Puzo

prose

Konkani

Mukesh Talli

Maithili

Mahendra Malangya

Odia

Baishnab Charan Samai

Play

Santali

Maheshwar Soane

Sajid Shanta Lun Anda Manmi

Research

tamil

AR Venkatachala disease

literary criticism

kannada

KV Narayana

marathi

Sudhir Lasalle

telugu

Penugonda Lakshmi Narayana

Sahitya Akademi Chairman Madhav Kaushik announced the awards. The award is authorized by the Academy’s Executive Committee. Books eligible for the award must have been published between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2022.

The winners will receive medals, shawls and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh on March 8, 2025. Awards for Bengali, Dogri and Urdu will be announced at a later date.

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