The list of Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters) Award winners for writing in English.
I am yet to read the titles marked with asterisks.
Sahitya Akademi Awardees
No. |
Year |
Winner |
Work |
Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
1960 |
R. K. Narayan |
The Guide |
Novel |
2 |
1963 |
Raja Rao |
The Serpent and the Rope* |
Novel |
3 |
1965 |
Verrier Elwin |
The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin* |
Autobiography |
4 |
1967 |
Bhabani Bhattacharya |
Shadow from Ladakh* |
Novel |
5 |
1969 |
Niharranjan Ray |
An Artist in Life* |
Study |
6 |
1971 |
Mulk Raj Anand |
Morning Face* |
Novel |
7 |
1975 |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
Scholar Extraordinary* |
Biography |
8 |
1976 |
S. Gopal |
Jawaharlal Nehru* |
Biography |
9 |
1977 |
Chaman Nahal |
Azadi* |
Novel |
10 |
1978 |
Anita Desai |
Fire on the Mountain |
Novel |
11 |
1979 |
Rama Mehta |
Inside the Haveli* |
Novel |
12 |
1980 |
K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar |
On the Mother* |
Biography |
13 |
1981 |
Jayanta Mahapatra |
Relationship* |
Poetry |
14 |
1982 |
Arun Joshi |
The Last Labyrinth* |
Novel |
15 |
1983 |
Nissim Ezekiel |
Later-Day Psalms* |
Poetry |
16 |
1984 |
Keki N. Daruwalla |
The Keeper of the Dead* |
Poetry |
17 |
1985 |
Kamala Das |
Collected Poems* |
Poetry |
18 |
1986 |
Nayantara Sahgal |
Rich Like Us* |
Novel |
19 |
1987 |
Shiv K. Kumar |
Trapfalls in the Sky* |
Poetry |
20 |
1988 |
Vikram Seth |
The Golden Gate |
Novel in verse |
21 |
1989 |
Amitav Ghosh |
The Shadow Lines |
Novel |
22 |
1990 |
Shashi Deshpande |
That Long Silence* |
Novel |
23 |
1991 |
I. Allan Sealy |
The Trotter-Nama |
Novel |
24 |
1992 |
Ruskin Bond |
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra* |
Short Stories |
25 |
1993 |
G.N. Devy |
After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism* |
Criticism |
26 |
1994 |
Dom Moraes |
Serendip* |
Poetry |
27 |
1996 |
Sunetra Gupta |
Memories of Rain* |
Criticism |
28 |
1998 |
Mahesh Dattani |
Final Solutions and Other Plays* |
Plays |
29 |
1999 |
A. K. Ramanujan |
The Collected Poems of A. K. Ramanujan* |
Poetry |
30 |
2000 |
Kiran Nagarkar |
Cuckold* |
Novel |
31 |
2001 |
Rajmohan Gandhi |
Rajaji : A Life* |
Biography |
32 |
2002 |
Amit Chaudhuri |
A New World* |
Novel |
33 |
2003 |
Meenakshi Mukherjee |
The Perishable Empire: Essays On Indian Writing In English* |
Essays |
34 |
2004 |
Upamanyu Chatterjee |
The Mammaries of the Welfare State * |
Novel |