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,...

 to Gujarati

Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...

 Writers by 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...

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! Year
! Author
! Work
! Type of Work
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| 1955
| Mahadev Desai

Mahadev Desai

Mahadev Desai was an Indian independence activist and nationalist writer; he was most famously known for being the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi.-Career:...

| Mahadev Bhaini Diary
| Memoirs
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| 1956
| Ramnarayan Pathak
| Brihat - Pingal
| Treatise on prosody
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| 1958
| Pandit Sukhlal
| Darshan ane Chintan
| Philosophical essays
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| 1960
| Rasiklal C. Parekh
| Sharvilak
| Play
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| 1961
| Ram Singhji Rathod
| Kachhnun Sanskrit Darshan
| cultural survey
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| 1962
| V.R. Trivedi
| Upayana
| Critical writings
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| 1963
| Rajendra Shah
| Shant Kolahal
| Poetry
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| 1964
| Dolarrai R. Mankad
| Naivedya
| Essays
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| 1965
| Kakasaheb Kalelkar
| Jeevan-Vyavastha
| Essays
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| 1967
| Dr.P.B. Pandit
| Gujarati Bhashanum
Dhwani-Swarup and
Dhwani-Parivartan
| Linguistic study
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| 1968
| Sundaram

Sundaram

Mugur Sundar is a popular dance choreographer in South Indian cinema. He has directed more than 10,000 dance sequences for various south-Indian films. Sundar was born in Mugur, a village located in Mysore district, Karnataka. He has three sons, Prabhu Deva, Raju Sundaram and Nagendra Prasad, who...

 (Tribhuvandas P. Luhar)
| Avalokana
| Literary reviews
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| 1969
| Swami Anand(Not Accepted)
| Kulkathao
| Pen-portraits
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| 1970
| Nagindas Parekh
| Abhinavano Rasavichar
| Literary criticism
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| 1971
| Chandravadan.C. Mehta
| Natya Gathariyan
| Travelogue
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| 1973
| Umashankar Joshi

Umashankar Joshi

Umashankar Joshi was an eminent poet, scholar and writer. He received the Jnanpith Award in 1967 for his contribution to Indian, especially Gujarati literature.-Works:...

| Kavini Shraddha
| Literary criticism
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| 1974
| Anantrai M. Raval
| Tartamya
| Literary criticism
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| 1975
| Manubhai Pancholi 'Darshak'
| Socrates
| Novel
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| 1976
| N.K. Pandya 'Ushanas'
| Aswattha
| Poetry
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| 1977
| Raghuvir Chaudhari
| Uparvas Kathatrayi
| Novel
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| 1978
| Harindra Dave

Harindra Dave

Harsh Ghetia was a Gujarati writer of the post-independence period. He was born in Khambhra village in Kachchh, and was educated at Shamaldas Gandhi College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat and later Bombay University. He authored more than fifty works, including poems, essays, Drama and fiction. He was a...

| Hayati
| Poetry
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| 1979
| Jagdish Joshi
| Vamal Nan Van
| Poetry
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| 1980
| Jayant Pathak
| Anunaya
| Poetry
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| 1981
| Dr.Harivallabh Bhayani
| Rachna ane Samrachna
| Criticism
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| 1982
| Priyakant Maniar
| Lilero Dhal
| Poetry
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| 1983
| Dr.Suresh Joshi(Not Accepted)
| Chintayami Manasa
| Essays
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| 1984
| Ramanlal Joshi
| Vivechanni Prakriya
| Literary criticism
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| 1985
| Kundanika Kapadia
| Sat Paglan Aakashman
| Novel
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| 1986
| Chandrakant T. Sheth
| Dhoolmani Paglio
| Reminiscences
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| 1987
| Sitanshu Yashaschandra
| Jatayu
| Poetry
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| 1988
| Bhagwatikumar Sharma
| Asooryalok
| Novel
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| 1989
| Joseph Macwan
| Angaliat
| Novel
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| 1990
| Anil R. Joshi
| Statue
| Essays
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| 1991
| Labhshanker Thaker
| Tolan Aawaz Ghunghat
| Poetry
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| 1992
| Bholabhai Patel
| Devoni Ghati
| Travelogue
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| 1993
| Narayan Desai

Narayan Desai

Narayan Desai, son of Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary and biographer Mahadev Desai, was born on December 24, 1924, in Bulsar, Gujarat. Brought up in Gandhi's Ashram in Sabarmati, Ahmedabad and Sevagram near Wardha, Narayan stopped attending school to be educated and trained by his father and...

| Agnikundaman Ugelun
Gulab
| Biography
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| 1994
| Ramesh Parekh
| Vitan Sud Beej
| Poetry
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| 1995
| Varsha M. Adalja
| Ansar
| Novel
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| 1996
| Himanshi Shelat
| Andhari Galima
Safed Tapakan
| Short stories
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| 1997
| Ashokpuri Goswami
| Kuvo
| Novel
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| 1998
| Jayant Kothari
| Vank-dekham Vivechano
| Criticism
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| 1999
| Niranjan N. Bhagat
| Gujarati Sahiyta-
Purvardha Uttarardha
| Criticism
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| 2000
| Vinesh Antani
| Dhundhabhari Khin
| Novel
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| 2001
| Dhiruben Patel

Dhiruben Patel

Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel, ; born May 25, 1926 in Vadodara), is a Gujarati novelist, playwright, negotiator and translator who won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his novel Agantuk....

| Agantuk
| Novel
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| 2002
| Dhruv Prabodhrai Bhatt
| Tattvamasi
| Novel
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| 2003
| Bindu Bhatt
| Akhepatar
| Novel
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| 2004
| Amritlal Vegad
| Saundaryani Nadi Narmada
| Travelogue
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| 2005
| Suresh Dalal
| Akhand Zalar Vage
| Poetry
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| 2006
| Ratilal 'Anil'
| Ratano Suraj
| Essays
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| 2007
| Rajendra Shukla

Rajendra Shukla

Rajendra Shukla is a well known Gujarati poet.Introduction to Kavi Shri Rajendra ShuklaName: Rajendra ShuklaFather: Anantray ShuklaMother: VidyagauriPlace of Birth: Bantwa, Dist. Junagadh, Gujarat.Date of Birth: 12 October 1942....

| Gazal-Samhita
| Poetry
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| 2008
| Suman Shah
| Fatfatiyun
| Short stories
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| 2009
| Shirish Panchal
| Vaat aapanaa vivechan-ni
| criticism
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| 2010
| Dhirendra Maheta
| Chhavni
| Novel
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