SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD 2021

 

Established: 1954

 

Sahitya Academi Award is a prestigious literary honor in India.

 

Sahitya Akademi Award is run by three authorities:

General council

Finance committee

Executive board

 

Sahitya Academi has announced the annual Sahitya Akademi Awards 2021 in 20 Indian languages.

 

Awards for Gujarati, Maithili, Manipuri, and Urdu languages will be announced later.

 

It is an autonomous body that comes under the Ministry of Culture.

 

Anuradha Sarma Pujari – Assamese

 

Bratya Basu – Bengali

 

Mwdai Gahai – Bodo

 

Raj Rahi – Dogri

 

Namita Gokhale – English

 

Daya Prakash Sinha – Hindi

 

D.S. Nagabhushana – Kannada

 

Wali Mohd. Aseer Kashtawari –  Kashmiri

 

Sanjiv Verenkar – Konkani

 

George Onakkoor – Malayalam

 

Kiran Gaurav – Marathi

 

Chhabilal Upadhyaya – Nepali

 

Hrushikesh Mallick – Odia

 

Khalid Hussain  – Punjabi

 

Meethesh Nirmohi – Rajasthani

 

Vindeshwariprasad Mishr ‘Vinay’ –  Sanskrit

 

Niranjan Hansda – Santali

 

Arjun Chawla – Sindhi

 

Ambai – Tamil

 

Gorati Venkanna – Telugu