Sahitya Akademi Award 2023: Full Winners List

List of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 2023: The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of the most prominent literary honors in India. Sahitya Akademi Award is granted to authors who have distinguished themselves in literature and language in 24 Indian languages by the Sahitya Akademi, the National Academy of Letters. A copper plaque and a monetary reward of Rs. 50,0001 are included in the award.

At the 39th Festival of Letters in New Delhi on June 22, 2023, the Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 2023 were revealed. The judges, who included distinguished authors, academics, and critics from a range of disciplines, chose the winners. The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and Bal Sahitya Puraskar categories each had two winners.

In this article, we have provided the list of Sahitya Akademi award winners 2023, for Hindi literature, and English literature, the the list of winners in each language.

What are Sahitya Akademi Awards?

The Sahitya Akademi, an independent institution within the purview of the Indian government’s Ministry of Culture, bestows the esteemed Sahitya Akademi Awards to deserving authors each year. The awards promote literary brilliance across the nation by recognizing exceptional works in a variety of Indian languages.

Selection Process of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 2023

The selection process for Sahitya Akademi Award Winners has 6 steps that are provided below:

1. Nomination: Writers and publishers submit submissions in a variety of languages and categories for the prizes.
2. Jury Selection: Prominent authors, academics, and literary critics make up the distinct jury panels for each language. After assessing the submitted pieces, the jury chooses the winners.
3. Criteria: Selection criteria include literary excellence, inventiveness, and additions to the literature of the language in question.
4. Recommendation: The Sahitya Akademi Executive Board receives a recommendation from the jury about the selected works.
5. Approving: Following the Executive Board’s approval of the recommendations, the winners are formally declared.
6. Awards Ceremony: To recognize and honor the awardees’ literary accomplishments, the Sahitya Akademi hosts an awards ceremony.

List of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 2023

The list of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 2023 is given below along with the name of the book and the language:

Language	Name of the Book (Genre)	Awardee’s Name
Assamese	Mon Mora Tora (Short Stories)	Jintu Gitartha
Bengali	Mathrakha (Short Stories)	Hamiruddin Middya
Bodo	Som, Jiu, Arw…. (Poetry)	Mainaosri Daimary
Dogri	Ahlada (Plays)	Dheeraj Bismil
English	Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas (Historical)	Anirudh Kanisetti
Gujarati	Get Together (Short Stories)	Sagar Shah
Hindi	Chandpur Ki Chanda (Novel)	Atul Kumar Rai
Kannada	Phoo Mattu Ithara Kathegalu (Short Stories)	Manjunayak Challur
Kashmiri	Lalli Nilvath Tchali Na Zanh (Poetry)	Nighat Nasreen
Kashmiri	Shots (Short Stories)	Tanvi Kamat Bambolkar
Malayalam	Acnante Alamara (Poetry)	Ganesh Puthur
Marathi	Swatahala Swataviruddh Ubhe Kartana (Poetry)	Vishakha Vishwanath
Nepali	Ghat-Pratighatka Udgarharu (Poetry)	Naina Adhikari
Punjabi	Chitt Da Jugraphia (Poetry)	Sandeep
Rajasthani	Antas Ro Olmo (Poetry)	Devilal Mahiya
Santali	Dusi (Short Stories)	Bapi Tudu
Sindhi	Glamour (Short Stories)	Monika J. Panjwani
Tamil	Thirukarthiyat (Short Stories)	Ram Thangam
Telugu	Vivechani (Criticism)	Johny Takkedasila

List of Winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award for English Literature

The list of winners of the Sahitya Akademi award for English literature are:

Year	Book	Writer	Category of Books
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	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	Biography
1981	Relationship	Jayanta Mahapatra
1982	The Last Labyrinth	Arun Joshi	Novel
1983	Latter-Day Psalms	Nissim Ezekiel	Poetry
1984	The Keeper of the Dead	Keki N. Daruwalla	Poetry
1985	Collected Poems	Kamala Das	Poetry
1986	Rich Like Us	Nayantara Sahgal	Novel
1987	Trapfalls in the Sky	Shiv K. Kumar	Poetry
1988	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth	Novel
1989	Collected Poems 1959-1989	Dom Moraes	Poetry
1990	That Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande	Novel
1991	The Trotter-Nama	Allan Sealy	Novel
1992	After Amnesia	G. N. Devy	Literary criticism
1993	Serendip	Dom Moraes	Autobiography
1994	Memories of Rain	Sunetra Gupta	Novel
1995	Final Solutions and Other Plays	Mahesh Dattani	Play
1996	The Collected Poems	A. K. Ramanujan	Poetry
1997	The Death of a Patriot	Nirmal Verma	Novel
1998	Cuckold	Kiran Nagarkar	Novel
1999	The Perishable Empire	Meenakshi	Essays
2000	Rajaji: A Life	Rajmohan Gandhi	Biography
2001	An Obedient Father	Akhil Sharma	Novel
2002	A New World	Amit Chaudhuri	Novel
2003	The Sari Shop	Rupa Bajwa	Novel
2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Upamanyu Chatterjee	Novel
2005	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Arundhati Roy	Essays
2006	Disorderly Women	Malathi Rao	Short stories
2007	The Book of Rachel	Esther David	Novel
2008	Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition	Chaturvedi Badrinath	Essays
2009	The Book of Common Signs	K. Satchidanandan	Poetry
2010	The Book of Secrets	M. G. Vassanji	Novel
2011	India after Gandhi	Ramachandra Guha	History
2012	These Errors are Correct	Jeet Thayil	Poetry
2013	Em and the Big Hoom	Jerry Pinto	Novel
2014	Trying to Say Goodbye	Adil Jussawalla	Poetry
2015	Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer	Cyrus Mistry	Novel
2016	The Blind Lady’s Descendants	Anees Salim	Novel
2017	The Black Hill	Mamang Dai	Novel
2018	Jasmine Days	Benyamin	Novel
2019	The City and the Sea	Raj Kamal Jha	Novel
2020	When God is a Traveller	Arundhathi Subramaniam	Poetry
2021	Prelude to a Riot	Annie Zaidi	Novel
2022	The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali	Uzma Aslam Khan	Novel
2023	The Far Field	Madhuri Vijay	Novel

List of the Sahitya Akademi Award Winners for Hindi Literature

The list of winners of the Sahitya Akademi award for Hindi literature are:

Year	Author	Work	Type of Work
1955	Makhanlal Chaturvedi	Him Tarangini	Poetry
1956	Vasudev Sharan Agarwal	Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya	Commentary
1957	Acharya Narendra Dev	Bauddha Dharma Darshan	Philosophy
1958	Rahul Sankrityayan	Madhya Asia Ka Itihas	History
1959	Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’	Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyayay	A survey of Indian culture
1960	Sumitranandan Pant	Kala aur Budha Chand	Poetry
1961	Bhagwati Charan Verma	Bhoole Bisre Chitra	Novel
1962	No Award
1963	Amrit Rai	Premchand: Kalam Ka Sipahi	Biography
1964	Agyeya	Angan Ke Par Dwar	Poetry
1965	Nagendra	Rasa Siddhanta	Treatise on poetics
1966	Jainendra Kumar	Muktibodh	Novelette
1967	Amritlal Nagar	Amrit Aur Vish	Novel
1968	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	Do Chattanen	Poetry
1969	Shrilal Shukla	Raag Darbari	Novel
1970	Yashpal	Meri Teri Uski Baat	Novel
1971	Ram Vilas Sharma	Nirala Ki Sahitya Sadhana	Biography
1972	Bhawani Prasad Mishra	Buni Huyi Rassi	Poetry
1973	Hazari Prasad Dwivedi	Alok Parva	Essays
1974	Shivmangal Singh ‘Suman’	Mitti Ki Baraat	Poetry
1975	Bhisham Sahni	Tamas	Novel
1976	Nirmal Verma	Antim Aranya	Novel
1977	Shamsher Bahadur Singh	Chuka Bhi Hun Nahin Main	Poetry
1978	Mannu Bhandari	Ek Inch Muskaan	Novel
1979	Raghuvir Sahay	Log Bhool Gaye Hain	Poetry
1980	Vishnu Prabhakar	Ardhanarishvara	Novel
1981	Dharamvir Bharati	Andha Yug	Play
1982	Ramdarash Mishra	Aam Ka Ped	Poetry
1983	Ramesh Chandra Shah	Vinayak	Novel
1984	Kunwar Narayan	Atmajayee	Poetry
1985	Mohan Rakesh	Ashadh Ka Ek Din	Play
1986	Uday Prakash	Pahar Par Lalten	Short stories
1987	Gyanranjan	Gyanranjan Granthavali	Poetry
1988	Harishankar Parsai	Viklaang Shraddha Ka Daur	Satire
1989	Ram Nath Shastri	Koi Doosra Naheen	Poetry
1990	Nirmal Verma	Bharat Aur Europe: Pratishruti Ke Kshetra	Essays
1991	Krishna Sobti	Zindaginama	Novel
1992	Kedarnath Singh	Akaal Mein Saras	Poetry
1993	Giriraj Kishore	Pehla Girmitiya	Novel
1994	Prabhu Dayal Agnihotri	Alok Parv	Essays
1995	Kunwar Narayan	Koi Dusra Nahi	Poetry
1996	Surendra Verma	Mujhe Chand Chahiye	Novel
1997	Leeladhar Jagoori	Anubhav Ke Aakash Mein Chand	Poetry
1998	Arun Kamal	Naye Ilake Mein	Poetry
1999	Vinod Kumar Shukla	Deewar Main Ek Khirkee Rahathi Thi	Novel
2000	Manglesh Dabral	Hum Jo Dekhte Hain	Poetry
2001	Alka Saraogi	Kali-Katha : Via Bypass	Novel
2002	Rajesh Joshi	Do Panktiyon Ke Beech	Poetry
2003	Kamleshwar	Kitne Pakistan	Novel
2004	Viren Dangwal	Dushchakra Mein Srista	Poetry
2005	Manohar Shyam Joshi	Kyaap	Novel
2006	Gyanendrapati	Sanshyatma	Poetry
2007	Amar Kant	Inhin Hathiyaron Se	Novel
2008	Govind Mishra	Kohre Mein Kaid Rang	Novel
2009	Kailash Vajpeyi	Hawa Main Hasthakshar	Poetry
2010	Uday Prakash	Mohan Das	Short Story
2011	Kashinath Singh	Rehan Per Raghu	Novel
2012	Chandrakant Devtale	Patthar Fenk Raha Hoon	Poetry
2013	Mridula Garg	Miljul Man	Novel
2014	Ramesh Kuntal Megh	Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar	Literary Criticism
2015	Ramdarash Mishra	Aag Ki Hansi	Poetry
2016	Nasira Sharma	Paarijat	Novel
2017	Ramesh Chandra Shah	Vinayak	Novel
2018	Chitra Mudgal	Post Box No. 203-Naala Sopara	Novel
2019	Nand Kishore Acharya	Chheelate Hue Apne Ko	Poetry
2020	Anamika	Tokri Mein Digant ‘Their Gatha’ : 2014	Poetry
2021	Daya Prakash Sinha	Samrat Ashok	Play
2022	Badri Narayan	Tumadi Ke Shabd	Poetry

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Summary – Sahitya Akademi Award Winners

The Sahitya Akademi Awards, a prestigious literary recognition in India, celebrate outstanding contributions to literature and language across 24 Indian languages. Awarded by the Sahitya Akademi, these honors cover various genres like poetry, fiction, essays, and more. The winners are chosen through a meticulous process involving nominations, jury selection, and approval by the Sahitya Akademi Executive Board. The awards not only recognize literary excellence but also play a crucial role in promoting and motivating authors to contribute significantly to Indian literature. The 2023 winners were revealed at the 39th Festival of Letters in New Delhi, showcasing remarkable achievements in Hindi, English, and other languages. Each awardee receives a copper plaque and a monetary reward of Rs. 50,000.

FAQs on Sahitya Akademi Award Winners

What is the number of languages that the Sahitya Akademi Awards cover?

Twenty-four languages—including Hindi, English, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and others—are covered by the Sahitya Akademi Awards.

Which genres are given consideration for awards?

The honors include a wide range of literary disciplines, including as translation, essays, theater, poetry, fiction, and criticism.

For whom are Sahitya Akademi Awards eligible?

Eligible authors are Indian nationals who have significantly influenced literature in one of the official languages. The published works must have occurred during the last five years.

Do juries exist for each language separately?

Yes, a jury made up of specialists in the literature of that language is assigned to each language.

What literary contributions do the Sahitya Akademi Awards make to India?

Sahitya Akademi Awards are vital in motivating authors to create high-caliber works of literature in a variety of Indian languages by promoting and honoring literary excellence.