Here is the list of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners for English Literature Since 1960
Year | Book | Author | Category of Books |
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1960 | The Guide | R. K. Narayan | Novel |
1964 | The Serpent and the Rope | Raja Rao | Novel |
1965 | The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin | Verrier Elwin | Autobiography |
1967 | Shadow From Ladakh | Bhabani Bhattacharya | Novel |
1969 | An Artist in Life | Niharranjan Ray | Biography |
1971 | Morning Face | Mulk Raj Anand | Novel |
1975 | Scholar Extraordinary | Nirad C. Chaudhuri | Biography |
1976 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Sarvepalli Gopal | Biography |
1977 | Azadi | Chaman Nahal | Novel |
1978 | Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai | Novel |
1979 | Inside the Haveli | Rama Mehta | Novel |
1980 | On the Mother | K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar | Biography |
1981 | Relationship | Jayanta Mahapatra | Poetry |
1982 | The Last Labyrinth | Arun Joshi | Novel |
1983 | Latter-Day Psalms | Nissim Ezekiel | Poetry |
1984 | The Keeper of the Dead | Keki N. Daruwalla | Poetry |
1985 | Collected Poems | Kamala Das | Poetry |
1986 | Rich Like Us | Nayantara Sahgal | Novel |
1987 | Trapfalls In the Sky | Shiv K. Kumar | Poetry |
1988 | The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth | Novel |
1989 | The Shadow Lines | Amitav Ghosh | Novel |
1990 | That Long Silence | Shashi Deshpande | Novel |
1991 | The Trotter-Nama | I. Allan Sealy | Novel |
1992 | Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra | Ruskin Bond | Short Stories |
1993 | After Amnesia | G. N. Devy | Essays |
1994 | Serendip | Dom Moraes | Poetry |
1996 | Memories of Rain | Sunetra Gupta | Novel |
1998 | Final Solutions and Other Plays | Mahesh Dattani | Drama |
1999 | The Collected Poems | A. K. Ramanujan | Poetry |
2000 | Cuckold | Kiran Nagarkar | Novel |
2001 | Rajaji: A Life | Rajmohan Gandhi | Biography |
2002 | A New World | Amit Chaudhuri | Novel |
2003 | The Perishable Empire | Meenakshi Mukherjee | Essays |
2004 | The Mammaries of the Welfare State | Upamanyu Chatterjee | Novel |
2005 | The Algebra of Infinite Justice | Arundhati Roy | Essays |
2006 | The Sari Shop | Rupa Bajwa | Novel |
2007 | Disorderly Women | Malathi Rao | Novel |
2009 | Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition | Chaturvedi Badrinath | Criticism |
2010 | The Book of Rachel | Esther David | Novel |
2011 | India after Gandhi | Ramachandra Guha | Historical Narrative |
2012 | These Errors are Correct | Jeet Thayil | Poetry |
2013 | Laburnum For My Head | Temsula Ao | Short stories |
2014 | Trying to Say Goodbye | Adil Jussawalla | Poetry |
2015 | Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer | Cyrus Mistry | Novel |
2016 | Em and the Big Hoom | Jerry Pinto | Novel |
2017 | The Black Hill | Mamang Dai | Novel |
2018 | The Blind Lady’s Descendants | Anees Salim | Novel |
2019 | An Era of Darkness | Shashi Tharoor | Novel (Non-Fiction) |
Some Important Points:
- The Sponsored of the Sahitya Akademi Award is Sahitya Academy (India’s National Academy of Letters), Government of India.
- Sahitya Akademi Award for English Literature was first awarded in 1960 and Last awarded in 2019.
- No awards were conferred in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1995, 1997 and 2008.
- The plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi was designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray.
- Till date 48 Sahitya Akademi Award for English Literature has been given.
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