Sahitya Akademi is a India’s national Academy of Letters which offers the award to all outstanding writers. The Sahitya Academy award is the honor to the writers which have provided an extra value to the writing in India. This award is given in all languages differently.
The winners of Sahitya Akademi Award are-
Sahitya Akademi Award 1960: R. K. Narayan for “The Guide”
Sahitya Akademi Award 2014: Adil Jussawala for “Trying to Say Goodbye”
The full list of award winners from the year 1960- 2017 are listed in the table below. For GK perspective, the knowledge of these awardees are important.
Serial No. | Book | Year of Award | Books (Category) | Writer |
1 | The Guide | 1960 | Novel | R. K. Narayan |
2 | The Serpent and the Rope | 1964 | Novel | Raja Rao |
3 | The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin | 1965 | Autobiography | Verrier Elwin |
4 | Shadow From Ladakh | 1967 | Novel | Bhabani Bhattacharya |
5 | An Artist In Life | 1969 | Biography | Niharranjan Ray |
6 | Morning Face | 1971 | Novel | Mulk Raj Anand |
7 | Scholar Extraordinary | 1975 | Biography | Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
8 | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1976 | Biography | Sarvepalli Gopal |
9 | Azadi | 1977 | Novel | Chaman Nahal |
10 | Fire on the Mountain | 1978 | Novel | Anita Desai |
11 | Inside the Haveli | 1979 | Novel | Rama Mehta |
12 | On the Mother | 1980 | Biography | K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar |
13 | Relationship | 1981 | Poetry | Jayanta Mahapatra |
14 | The Last Labyrinth | 1982 | Novel | Arun Joshi |
15 | Latter-Day Psalms | 1983 | Poetry | Nissim Ezekiel |
16 | The Keeper of the Dead | 1984 | Poetry | Keki N. Daruwalla |
17 | Collected Poems | 1985 | Poetry | Kamala Das |
18 | Rich Like Us | 1986 | Novel | Nayantara Sahgal |
19 | Trapfalls In the Sky | 1987 | Poetry | Shiv K. Kumar |
20 | The Golden Gate | 1988 | Novel | Vikram Seth |
21 | The Shadow Lines | 1989 | Novel | Amitav Ghosh |
22 | That Long Silence | 1990 | Novel | Shashi Deshpande |
23 | The Trotter-Nama | 1991 | Novel | I. Allan Sealy |
24 | Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra | 1992 | Short Stories | Ruskin Bond |
24 | After Amnesia | 1993 | Essays | G. N. Devy |
26 | Serendip | 1994 | Poetry | Dom Moraes |
27 | Memories of Rain | 1996 | Novel | Sunetra Gupta |
28 | Final Solutions and Other Plays | 1998 | Drama | Mahesh Dattani |
29 | The Collected Poems | 1999 | Poetry | A. K. Ramanujan |
30 | Cuckold | 2000 | Novel | Kiran Nagarkar |
31 | Rajaji: A Life | 2001 | Biography | Rajmohan Gandhi |
32 | A New World | 2002 | Novel | Amit Chaudhuri |
33 | The Perishable Empire | 2003 | Essays | Meenakshi Mukherjee |
34 | The Mammaries of the Welfare State | 2004 | Novel | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
35 | The Sari Shop | 2006 | Novel | Rupa Bajwa |
36 | Disorderly Women | 2007 | Novel | Malathi Rao |
37 | Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition | 2009 | Criticism | Chaturvedi Badrinath |
38 | The Book of Rachel | 2010 | Novel | Esther David |
39 | India after Gandhi | 2011 | Historical Narrative | Ramachandra Guha |
40 | These Errors are Correct | 2012 | Poetry | Jeet Thayil |
41 | Laburnum For My Head | 2013 | Short stories | Temsula Ao |
42 | Trying to Say Goodbye | 2014 | Poetry | Adil Jussawala |
43 | Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer | 2015 | Novel | Cyrus Mistry |
44 | Em and the big Hoom | 2016 | Novel | Jerry Pinto |
45 | The Black Hill | 2017 | Novel | Mamang Dai |