The Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award

Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

is an annual award, given by the Sahitya Akademi

Sahitya Akademi

The Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...

 (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers in 24 Indian languages. The award was instituted and first awarded in 1955. It carries a monetary reward of 50,000 Rupees and a citation. The award for Sanskrit was first given in 1956. The first five awards went to works in other languages, dealing with Sanskrit culture. Since 1967, the award has been given only to works in Sanskrit. The list of Sanskrit language writers who have won the award is given below.

Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit

Year	Author	Work	Notes
1956	Mm. P. V. Kane	History of Dharma Sastra History of Dharmasastra (book) History of Dharmasastra, with subtitle Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India, is a monumental five-volume work, consisting of around 6,500 pages, and was written by Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane, an indologist. The first volume of the work was published in 1930 and the last one in 1962.... , Vol. IV (Research)	social laws and customs; religious and civil law
1961	Giridhar Sharma Chaturvedi	Vaidik Vijnan aur Bhartiya Sanskriti (A study in Hindi) (Research)
1963	B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma	A History of Dvait School of Vedanta and its Literature (Research)
1964	Mm. Gopinath Kaviraj Gopinath Kaviraj Gopinath Kaviraj was a Sanskrit scholar and philosopher. Kaviraj was the posthumous son of Vaikunthanath, a Bengali scholar of philosophy. He was born in Village Dhamrai, in the district of Dacca, now the capital of Bangladesh...	Tantrik Vangmaya Men Shaktadrishti (Treatise in Hindi) (Research)
1966	V. Raghavan V. Raghavan Venkataraman Raghavan was a Sanskrit scholar and musicologist. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Padma Bhushan and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit, and authored over 120 books and 1200 articles.-Sanskrit:...	Bhoja's Sringara Prakasa (Aesthetics)
1967	Ramaroop Pathak	Chitrakavya Kautukam (Poetry)
1968	Satyavrat Shastri	Srigurugovindasimhacharitam (Poetry)	Biography of Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh Guru Gobind Singh is the tenth and last Sikh guru in a sacred lineage of ten Sikh gurus. Born in Patna, Bihar in India, he was also a warrior, poet and philosopher. He succeeded his father Guru Tegh Bahadur as the leader of Sikhs at a young age of nine...
1970	V. Subramanya Sastri	Shabdatarangini (Treatise)	on verbal cognition
1973	M. S. Aney	Sritilakayasornavah (Epic)	Biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...
1974	S.B. Varnekar Shridhar Bhaskar Warnekar Dr. Shridhar Bhaskar Warnekar was Sanskrit scholar born in Nagpur, India, on 31 July 1918. He wrote many Sanskrit poems and verses.Most famous among them being "ShriShivarajyodayam". This Mahakavya is prescribed by Union Public Service Commission of India in the syllabus of Sanskrit Literature...	Shrishivarajyodayam (Epic poem)	68 cantos, on Shivaji
1977	Shanti Bhikshu Shastri	Buddhavijayakavyam (Poetry)	Buddhist
1979	K.N. Ezhuthachan	Keralodayah (Epic)	on history of Kerala Kerala or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
1980	P. C. Devassia P. C. Devassia Plakil Chacko Devassia, often known as P. C. Devassia , was a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Kerala, India. In 1980 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for his poem Kristubhagavatam.-Notes:...	Kristubhagavatam (Epic) Kristubhagavatam Kristubhagavatam: A Mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ is a Sanskrit epic poem on the life of Jesus Christ composed by P. C. Devassia , a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Kerala, India...	33 cantos, Jesus Christ
1981	Jagannath Pathak Jagannath Pathak Jagannath Pathak is a Sanskrit scholar and poet. In 1981 his poetry collection Kapishayani won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit. He also won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award in 2004, for translating Mirza Ghalib's Diwan-E-Ghalib Urdu poetry into Sanskrit as Ghaliba Kavyam.-References:...	Kapishayani (Poetry)	Poetry collection in 11 chapters, influenced by Persian poetry
1982	P. K. Narayana Pillai	Visvabhanu (Epic)
1983	Pandharinathacharya Galgali	Shri Sambulingeswar Vijaya Campu (Biography)
1984	Shrinath S. Hasurkar	Sindhu-Kanya (Historical novel)
1985	Vasant Trimbak Shevde	Vindhyavasini Vijaya Mahakavyam (Epic)
1986	Kalika Prasad Shukla	Sri Radhacarita Mahakavyam (Epic)
1987	Biswanarayan Shastri	Avinasi (novel)
1988	Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra is a Sanskrit author, poet, lyricist, playwright and the a former Vice-Chancellor of the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi. He has served as the head of department of Sanskrit in Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla...	Ikshugandha (Short stories)
1989	Ram Karan Sharma Ram Karan Sharma Ram Karan Sharma is a Sanskrit poet and scholar. He was, born in 1927 at Shivapur in the Saran district of Bihar. He has been awarded an MA in Sanskrit and Hindi from Patna University as well as Sahityacharya, Vyakarana Shastri and Vedanta Shastri degrees. He earned a PhD in Linguistics from the...	Sandhya (Poetry)
1990	Ogeti Parikshit Sharma	Srimat-Pratap Ranayanam Mahakavyam (Poetry)
1991	Rewa Prasad Dwivedi Rewa Prasad Dwivedi Rewa Prasad Dwivedi is a Sanskrit scholar and poet. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1991.-Life and career:...	Svatantrya Sambhavam (Poetry)	Epic poem on Indian independence movement Indian independence movement The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
1992	Hari Narayan Dikshit	Bhishma Chiritam (Epic)
1993	Jaggu Alwar Iyengar	Jayantika (Novel)
1994	Radhavallabh Tripathi	Sandhanam (Poetry)
1995	Rasik Vihari Joshi	Sri Radha Panchashati
1996	Keshab Chandra Dash	Isha (Poetry)
1997	Shyam Dev Parashar	Triveni (Poetry)
1998	Bachchoolal Awasthi	Pratanini (Poetry)
1999	Srinivas Rath Srinivas Rath Srinivas Rath is a poet writing in Sanskrit. He lives in Ujjain, India and was instrumental in the sustenance of the Kalidas Akademi, a center of arts and literature in Western India...	Tadeva Gaganam Saivadhara (Poetry)
2000	S. Srinivasa Sarma	Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekharendra - Saraswati Vijayam (Poetry)
2001	P Sri. Ramachandrudu	Ko Vai Rasah (Essays)
2002	Kashinath Mishra	Harsacarita-Manjari (Poetry)
2003	Bhaskaracharya Tripathi Bhaskaracharya Tripathi Bhaskaracharya Tripathi, , is a Sanskrit poet who was the recipient of the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit for his work Nirjharini.-Early life and education:...	Nirjharini (Poetry)
2004	Devarshi Kalanath Shastry	Akhyana Vallari (Short Stories)
2005	Swami Rambhadracharya	Sribhargavaraghaviyam Sribhargavaraghaviyam Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam , literally Of Paraśurāma and Rāma, is a Sanskrit epic poem composed by Jagadguru Rambhadracharya in the year 2002. It consists of 2121 verses in 40 Sanskrit and Prakrit metres and is divided into 21 cantos of 101 verses each...  (Epic)	Of Paraśurāma and Rāma
2006	Harshadev Madhav Harshadev Madhav Harshadev Madhav is a Sanskrit poet and writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2006 for his work of poetry, Tava Sparshe Sparshe. He had composed over 2200 poems in Sanskrit as of 1992....	Tava Sparshe Sparshe (Poetry)
2007	Hari Dutt Sharma Hari Dutt Sharma Hari Dutt Sharma is a Sanskrit poet who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2007 for his work of poetry, Lasallatika.He is a senior Reader and head of the Sanskrit department at the University of Allahabad...	Lasallatika (Poetry)
2008	Om Prakash Pande Om Prakash Pande Om Prakash Pande is a poet who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2008.He is a professor and head of the Sanskrit department at Lucknow University and has been visiting professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, and has also been visiting faculty in universities at Utrecht in...	(Poetry)
2009	Prashasya Mitra Shastri Prashasya Mitra Shastri Dr. Prashasya Mitra Shastri is a Sanskrit poet and author who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2009 for his Anabheepsitam, a collection of short stories. He also won the Kalidas Puraskar awarded by the Madhya Pradesh government's Kalidas Sanskrit Akademi. The award includes a letter of...	(Short stories)
2010	Mithila Prasad Tripathi Mithila Prasad Tripathi Mithila Prasad Tripathi is a Sanskrit poet who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for 2010 for his poetry.The Sahitya Akademi is India's national academy of letters that awards the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award, and the Sahitya Akademi Award for each language is considered...	(Poetry)

(No Awards in 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976 and 1978)