Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award ( Hindi साहित्य अकादमी पुरस्कार sāhitya akādamī puraskār ) is a literary award of the Sahitya Akademi in India , which is given annually to authors who have written their works in one of the following twenty-four Indian languages:
Assami , Bengali , Bodo , Dogri , English , Gujarati , Hindi , Kannada , Kashmiri , Konkani , Maithili , Malayalam , Meitei , Marathi , Nepali , Oriya , Panjabi , Rajasthani , Sanskrit , Santali , Sindhi , Tamil , Telugu , Urdu .
The award was introduced in 1954 and is endowed with prize money of Rs. 100,000 . The purpose of this award is to recognize and promote excellent writing in any of the aforementioned Indian languages. The selection process always takes place in the previous twelve months.
The award was returned by many previous awardees, mostly in protest against the intolerant Hindu chauvinism of the Narendra Modi government and for the 2015 lynching of author and scholar MM Kalburgi .
Web links
- Complete List of Sahitya Akademi Awards Winners
- Sahitya Akademi Awards and Fellowships, Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Hindu. Article on the Awards for 2009
- ↑ Reetu Sharma: Sahitya Akademi protest: Know who all returned literary honor , www.oneindia.com, October 13, 2015.