Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
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| Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | |
|---|---|
| Category | Literature (Individual) |
| Description | Literary award in India |
| Instituted | 1968 |
| First awarded | 1968 |
| Last awarded | 2013[1] |
| Awarded by | Sahitya Akademi, Government of India |
| First awardee(s) | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Last awardee(s) | Khushwant Singh |
The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India. Awarded by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters,Government of India, to the "immortals of literature," and limited to twenty one individuals at any given time,[2] it is the highest literary honour conferred by the Government of India.[3] The fellowship was established in 1968 and the first elected fellow was the philosopher and statesman, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In addition to the twenty one fellowships, a handful of honorary fellowships have been awarded to international scholars of Indian literature.
The fellowship can be awarded for literary work in any one of the following twenty-four Indian languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Indian English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
List of Fellows
1968
- S. Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), philosopher(second President of India from 1962 to 1967)
1969
- C. Rajagopalachari (1879–1972), Tamil writer and translator
- Tarashankar Bandyopadhyaya (1898–1971), Bengali novelist
- Sumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Hindi poet
- D. R. Bendre (1896–1981), Kannada poet.
1970
- Viswanadha Satyanarayana (1895–1976), Telugu poet
- Raghupati Sahay Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896–1982), Urdu poet
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1910–1994), Malayalam novelist and short-story writer
- Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1898–1976), Marathi novelist
1971
- Gopinath Kaviraj (1877–1976), Sanskrit scholar and philosopher
- Dattatreya Balkrushna (Kaka) Kalelkar (1885–1981), Gujarati poet, travelogue writer, and essayist
- Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari (1895–1977), Punjabi novelist and short story writer
- Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991), Oriya poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist
1973
- M. U. Malkani (1896–1980), Sindhi writer
- Nilmoni Phukan (1879–1978), Assamese poet (Not to be confused with the other Assamese poet Nilmani Phukan(1933), who was given the fellowship in 2002)
- Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985), Sanskrit scholar
- V. R. Trivedi (1899–1991)
- Sukumar Sen (1900–1992), Bengali linguist
- Masti Venkatesa Iyengar (1891–1986), Kannada writer
1975
- T. P. Meenakshisundaran (1899–1980), Dravidian linguist
1979
- Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande (1901–1982), Marathi poet
- Jainendra Kumar (1905–1988), Hindi novelist
- K. V. Puttappa Kuvempu (1904–1994), Kannada writer and poet
- V. Raghavan (1908–1979), Sanskrit scholar
- Mahadevi Verma (1907–1987), Hindi poet
1985
- K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999), English writer
- K. Shivarama Karanth (1902–1997), Kannada writer
1989
- Laxmanshastri Joshi (1901–1994), Sanskrit and Marathi scholar
- Annada Shankar Ray(1904–2002), Bengali poet and essayist
- Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004), English novelist
- Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1909–1992), Kannada writer and scholar
- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912–1999), Malayalam novelist and short story writer
- Amritlal Nagar (1916–1990), Hindi writer
1994
- Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), Bengali novelist and poet
- R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English novelist
- P. T. Narasimhachar (1905–1998), Kannada poet
- N. Balamani Amma (1909–2004), Malayalam poet
- Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1908–1998), Marathi scholar
- Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Urdu novelist and short story writer
- Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1906–1994), Oriya novelist
- Harbhajan Singh (1919–2002), Punjabi poet
- Nagarjun (1911–1998), Hindi and Maithili poet
1996
- Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916–2004), Oriya short story writer and poet[4]
- Krishna Sobti (1925), Hindi writer[5]
- Vidya Niwas Mishra (1926–2005), Hindi and Sanskrit scholar
- Vinda Karandikar (1918), Marathi poet
- Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Bengali poet
- D. Jayakanthan (1934), Tamil writer, essayist, and critic
- Raja Rao (1908), English novelist
1999
- Ram Vilas Sharma (1912–2000)
- Rajendra Shah (1913)
- Gunturu Seshendra Sarma (1927), Telugu poet
- Syed Abdul Malik (1919–2000), Assamese Writer
- N. Khelchandra Singh (1920), Manipuri language expert on Archaic Meeteilon written in Meetei Script
- K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1915–2003), Kannada poet
2000
- Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar (1909–2001), Indologist
- Rahman Rahi (1925)
2001
- Ram Nath Shastri (1914-2009)
2002
- Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003), Hindi fiction writer
- Kaifi Azmi (1925–2002), Urdu poet[6]
- Nilmani Phukan(1933), Assamese poet (Not to be confused with the other Assamese poet Nilmoni Phukan (1879–1978), who was given the fellowship in 1973)
- Govind Chandra Pandey (1923)
2004
- U. R. Anantha Murthy (1932), Kannada writer
- Amrita Pritam (1919–2005)
- Sankha Ghosh (1932), Bengali poet
- Vijaydan Detha (1926)
- Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (1928), Scholar in Dravidian studies
- Nirmal Verma (1929–2005), Hindi writer and novelist[7]
- Kovilan (1923-2010), Malayalam novelist[7]
2006
- Vishnu Prabhakar (1912), Hindi writer
- Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer[8]
2007
- Anita Desai, English novelist[9]
- Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani writer[9][10]
- Kartar Singh Duggal, Punjabi writer [9][11]
2009
- Ramakanta Rath (1934)
- Gopi Chand Narang (1931)
2010
In 2010, five people were honored with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowships.
- Dr. Bholabhai Patel (1934)
- Kunwar Narayan (1927)
- Khushwant Singh (1915)
- Kedar Nath Singh (1934)
- Chandranath Mishra 'Amar' (1925)
- V. S. Naipaul
2013
- Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri
- Raghuveer Chaudhari
- Arjan Hasid
- Dr. Sitakanta Mahapatra
- Dr. M.T. Vasudevan Nair[1]
2015
- S L Bhyrappa,[12] Kannada novelist
- C. Naarayana Reddy,[12] Telugu poet
List of Honorary Fellows
1974
- Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2002), Senegalese poet, and cultural theorist
1996
- Edward C. Dimock, Jr. (1929–2001), Bengali scholar
- Daniel H. H. Ingalls (1916), Sanskrit scholar
- Kamil V. Zvelebil (1927), scholar of Dravidian linguistics
- Ji Xianlin (1911), Sanskrit scholar and translator[13]
2002
- Vassilis Vitsaxis (1920)
- E. P. Chelyshev (1921)
2007
- R. E. Asher, writer and scholar from the U.K.[9]
2010
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/fellows/sahitya_akademi_fellowship.jsp#Sahitya Akademi Fellows
- ↑ Sahitya Academi Fellowships
- ↑ Report from The Hindu, January 2007.: the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
- ↑ Also spelled Sachi Raut-Roy, Sachi Raut-Ray, Sachi Rautroy.
- ↑ Krishna Sobti, 1925–
- ↑ Bhisham Sahni, Kaifi Azmi in Sahitya Akademi
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Nirmal Verma, Kovilan elected Sahitya Akademi Fellows"
- ↑ Report from The Hindu, January 2007.: the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour – Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Anita Desai among Sahitya Akademi Fellows The Hindu, February 23, 2007.
- ↑ Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for Kalelkar
- ↑ Kartar Singh Duggal gets Sahitya Akademi Fellowship 6 May 2007.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Ji Xianlin, A Gentle Academic Giant.
External links
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- Official Site for Sahitya Akademi Award
- Canadian Source for Sahitya Academi Award Winning Novels and Stories
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