Sahitya Akademi Award to English Language Writers

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 given each year, since 1955, 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 and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature

Indian literature

Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognized languages....

in each of the official languages of India.

Sahitya Akademi Award winners and their works in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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Year	Book	Writer	Category of Books
1960	The Guide The Guide The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works the novel is based in Malgudi, the fictional town in South India...	R. K. Narayan R. K. Narayan R. K. Narayan , shortened from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami Tamil: ) , Madras Presidency, British India. His father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his father's school...	Novel
1964	The Serpent and the Rope	Raja Rao Raja Rao Raja Rao was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. Raja Rao's semi-autobiographical novel, The Serpent and the Rope , is a story of a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India...	Novel
1965	The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin	Verrier Elwin Verrier Elwin Verrier Elwin was a self-trained anthropologist, ethnologist and tribal activist, who began his career in India as a Christian missionary...	Autobiography
1967	Shadow From Ladakh	Bhabani Bhattacharya	Novel
1969	An Artist In Life	Niharranjan Ray Niharranjan Ray Niharranjan Ray was an Indian historian, well-known for his works on history of art and Buddhism. he was born at Kayetgram village of Mymensingh District in Bengal province of British India . He completed his initial studies from the Mrityunjaya School and Anandamohan College in Mymensingh. In...	Biography
1971	Morning Face	Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K...	Novel
1975	Scholar Extraordinary	Nirad C. Chaudhuri Nirad C. Chaudhuri Italic textNirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali−English writer and cultural commentator...	Biography
1976	Jawaharlal Nehru	Sarvepalli Gopal Sarvepalli Gopal -Background and education:He was born in a Niyogi Telugu Brahmin family. He was the son of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, India's first Vice-President [1952-1962] and second President [1962-1967].He completed his graduation at Presidency College, Madras, and D.Phil...	Biography
1977	Azadi	Chaman Nahal	Novel
1978	Fire on the Mountain	Anita Desai Anita Desai Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...	Novel
1979	Inside the Haveli	Rama Mehta	Novel
1980	On the Mother	K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Kodaganallur Ramaswami Srinivasa Iyengar popularly known as K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar M.A., D.Litt. was Indian writer in English, former Vice Chancellor of Andhra University. He was a multifaceted literary genius with Aurobindian knowledge and ideas of Indian culture and renaissance...	Biography
1981	Relationship	Jayanta Mahapatra Jayanta Mahapatra Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the best known Indian English poets.By all standards, Mahapatra's tryst with the muse came rather late in life. He took to writing poetry when he was into his 40s...	Poetry
1982	The Last Labyrinth	Arun Joshi Arun Joshi Arun Joshi was an Indian writer of English. He is known for his extraordinary novels The Strange Case of Billy Biswas and The Apprentice...	Novel
1983	Latter-Day Psalms	Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel ' was an Indian Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English....	Poetry
1984	The Keeper of the Dead	Keki N. Daruwalla Keki N. Daruwalla Keki N. Daruwalla is a major Indian poet and short story writer in English language. He has written over 12 books and published his first novel "For Pepper and Christ" in 2009...	Poetry
1985	Collected Poems	Kamala Das Kamala Das Kamala Suraiyya was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala state, South India...	Poetry
1986	Rich Like Us Rich Like Us Rich Like Us is a historical and political fiction novel by Nayantara Sahgal. Set in New Delhi during the chaotic time between 1932 and the mid 1970s, it follows the lives of two female protagonists, Rose and Sonali, and their fight to live in a time of political upheaval and social...	Nayantara Sahgal Nayantara Sahgal Nayantara Sahgal is an Indian writer in English. Her fiction deals with India's elite responding to the crises engendered by political change; she was one of the first female Indo-Anglian writers to receive wide recognition...	Novel
1987	Trapfalls In the Sky	Shiv K. Kumar Shiv Kumar Shiv K. Kumar is an Indian poet, playwright, novelist, and short story writer .-Early life and education:Shiv K Kumar was born in Lahore in 1921, and was matriculated from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School and did his M.A. at Forman Christian College, Lahore .In 1943, he joined D.A.V. College...	Poetry
1988	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth Vikram Seth Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...	Novel
1989	The Shadow Lines The Shadow Lines The Shadow Lines is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian-Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh. It is a book that captures perspective of time and events, of lines that bring people together and hold them apart, lines that are clearly visible on one perspective and nonexistent on another. Lines...	Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh , is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in the English language.-Life:Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at The Doon School; St...	Novel
1990	The Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande Shashi Deshpande Shashi Deshpande , is an award-winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Sriranga. She was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law...	Novel
1991	The Trotter-Nama	I. Allan Sealy Allan Sealy Irwin Allan Sealy is a writer born in 1951 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. His novel The Everest Hotel: A Calendar was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker prize.-Biography:...	Novel
1992	Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra	Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934, is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist....	Short Stories
1993	After Amnesia	G. N. Devy	Essays
1994	Serendip	Dom Moraes Dom Moraes Dominic Francis Moraes , popularly known as Dom Moraes, was a Goan writer, poet and columnist. He published nearly 30 books.-Early life:...	Poetry
1996	Memories of Rain	Sunetra Gupta Sunetra Gupta Sunetra Gupta is a novelist and biologist. Gupta was born in Calcutta, and trained in biology, holding a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She is currently Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of...	Novel
1998	Final Solutions and Other Plays	Mahesh Dattani Mahesh Dattani Mahesh Dattani is an Indian director, actor and writer. He wrote plays like Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man,Bravely Fought the Queen,On a Muggy Night in Mumbai,Tara and 30 days in September...	Drama
1999	The Collected Poems	A. K. Ramanujan A. K. Ramanujan Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan was a scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan wore many hats as a Indian poet, scholar and author, those of a philologist, folklorist, translator, poet and playwright. His academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil,...	Poetry
2000	Cuckold	Kiran Nagarkar Kiran Nagarkar Kiran Nagarkar is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India....	Novel
2001	Rajaji: A Life	Rajmohan Gandhi Rajmohan Gandhi Rajmohan Gandhi is a biographer and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.Gandhi's maternal grandfather was C...	Biography
2002	A New World	Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...	Novel
2003	The Perishable Empire	Meenakshi Mukherjee	Essays
2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State The Mammaries of the Welfare State The Mammaries of the Welfare State is the sequel to Upamanyu Chatterjee’s debut novel, English, August. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004....	Upamanyu Chatterjee Upamanyu Chatterjee Upamanyu Chatterjee is an Indian Bengali author and administrator, notable for his work set in the milieu of the Indian Administrative Service, especially his novel English, August. He was born in Patna, Bihar and was educated at St. Xavier's School and St. Stephen's College, in Delhi...	Novel
2006	The Sari Shop	Rupa Bajwa Rupa Bajwa Rupa Bajwa , born 1976 in Amritsar, is an Indian writer who lives and works in Amritsar, Punjab.In 2004,she published her first novel, The Sari Shop, which explores her hometown and the class dynamics of India. The novel won the writer flattering reviews, with reviewers calling her India’s new...	Novel
2007	Disorderly Women	Malathi Rao Malathi Rao Malathi Rao is an Indian writer. She won the Central Sahitya Akademi award for her English language novel Disorderly Women in 2007. Her novel Disorderly Women is a story of four Brahmin women in India who struggle to break the barriers built around them by society...	Novel
2009	Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition	Chaturvedi Badrinath	Criticism
2010	The Book of Rachel	Esther David Esther David Esther David is a Jewish-Indian author, an artist and a sculptor. She was born into a Bene Israel Jewish family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat....	Novel

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Sahitya Akademi Award winners and their works in the English languageEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

Sahitya Akademi Award winners and their works in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...