Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019: On December 18, Sahitya Academy - India's National Academy of Letters, announced Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019. The Academy announced names of 25 writers including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as winners for 2019 edition of the Sahitya Akademi Awards. According to the official press release, Seven books of poetry, four novels, six short stories, three non-fiction books and three essays have won the award this year.
Key Names among the Winners
Writer and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was named among the winners for Sahitya Akademi Awards. He won the prestigious literature award for his novel 'An Era of Darkness' in the creative non-fiction category in English literature. The novel which was published in 2016 describes British rule in India.
Tharoor was joined by Madhusoodanan Nair, who won the award for 'Achan Piranna Veedu' in the Malayalam poetry category. Another renowned name that was featured on the list of winners included Nand Kishore Acharya, who won the honour for his poetry collection ‘Chilte hue apneko’.
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019: Complete List of Winners
Language
Title & Genre
Author Name
Assamese
Chanakya (Novel)
Joysree Goswami Mahanta
Bengali
Ghumer Darja Thele (Essays)
Chinmoy Guha
Bodo
Akhai Athumniphrai (Poetry)
Phukan Ch. Basumatary
Dogri
Bandralta Darpan (Essays)
Om Sharma Jandriari
English
An Era of Darkness (Non-Fiction)
Shashi Tharoor
Gujarati
Mojma Revu Re (Essays)
Ratilal Borisagar
Hindi
Chheelate Hue Apne Ko (Potery)
Nand Kishore Acharya
Kannada
Kudi Esaru (Autobiography)
Vijaya
Kashmiri
Akh Yaad Akh Qayamat (Short Stories)
Abdul AhadHajini
Konkani
The Words (Potery)
Nilba A Khandekar
Maithili
Jingik Oriaon Kariat (Poetry)
Kumar Manish Arvind
Malayalam
Achan Piranna Veedu (Poetry)
V Madhusoodanan Nair
Manipuri
EiAmadi Adungeigi Eethat (Novel)
L Birmangol Singh (Beryl Thanga)
Odia
Bhaswati (Short Stories)
Tarun Kanti Mishra
Punjabi
Antheen (Short Stories)
Kirpal Kazak
Rajasthani
BareekBaat (Short Stories)
Ramswaroop Kisan
Sanskrit
Prajnachakshusham (Poetry)
Penna Madhusudan
Santali
Sisirkali (Short Stories)
Kali Charan Hembram
Sindhi
Jeejal (Short Stories)
Ishwar Moorjani
Tamil
Sool (Novel)
Cho Dharman
Telugu
Septabhoomi (Novel)
Bandi Narayana Swamy
Urdu
Sawaneh-E-Sir Syed: Ek Bazadeed (Biography)
Shafey Kidwai
About Sahitya Akademi Awards
Sahitya Akademi Awards is one of the highest literary awards in the country. The Awards are instituted by Sahitya Akademi– India’s National Academy of Letters, to commemorate the exemplary works of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages i.e. 24 languages of which 22 are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, along with English and Rajasthani. The Sahitya Akademi Award carries an engraved copper plaque, shawl and Rs 1 lakh, which will be presented to the winners on January 25, 2020 during the Festival of Letters organised by the Akademi
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