Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019 Announced
Recently, the India’s National Academy of Letters announced the Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2019. The announcement included the names of 25 writers including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as the winners of these awards. As per the official press release, Seven books of poetry, four novels, six short stories, three non-fiction books and three essays have won the award this year.
Writer and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was named among the
winners for Sahitya Akademi Awards. He won the prestigious literature award for
his novel ‘An Era of Darkness’ in the creative non-fiction category in English
literature. The novel which was published in 2016 describes British rule in
India.
Tharoor was joined by Madhusoodanan Nair, who won the award for ‘Achan Piranna
Veedu’ in the Malayalam poetry category. Another renowned name that was
featured on the list of winners included Nand Kishore Acharya, who won the
honour for his poetry collection ‘Chilte hue apneko’.
Complete List of Winners
| Language | Title & Genre | Author Name |
| Assamese | Chanakya (Novel) | Joysree Goswami Mahanta |
| Bengali | Ghumer Darja Thele (Essays) | Chinmoy Guha |
| Bodo | Akhai Athumniphrai (Poetry) | Phukan Ch. Basumatary |
| Dogri | Bandralta Darpan (Essays) | Om Sharma Jandriari |
| English | An Era of Darkness (Non-Fiction) | Shashi Tharoor |
| Gujarati | Mojma Revu Re (Essays) | Ratilal Borisagar |
| Hindi | Chheelate Hue Apne Ko (Potery) | Nand Kishore Acharya |
| Kannada | Kudi Esaru (Autobiography) | Vijaya |
| Kashmiri | Akh Yaad Akh Qayamat (Short Stories) | Abdul AhadHajini |
| Konkani | The Words (Potery) | Nilba A Khandekar |
| Maithili | Jingik Oriaon Kariat (Poetry) | Kumar Manish Arvind |
| Malayalam | Achan Piranna Veedu (Poetry) | V Madhusoodanan Nair |
| Manipuri | EiAmadi Adungeigi Eethat (Novel) | L Birmangol Singh (Beryl Thanga) |
| Odia | Bhaswati (Short Stories) | Tarun Kanti Mishra |
| Punjabi | Antheen (Short Stories) | Kirpal Kazak |
| Rajasthani | BareekBaat (Short Stories) | Ramswaroop Kisan |
| Sanskrit | Prajnachakshusham (Poetry) | Penna Madhusudan |
| Santali | Sisirkali (Short Stories) | Kali Charan Hembram |
| Sindhi | Jeejal (Short Stories) | Ishwar Moorjani |
| Tamil | Sool (Novel) | Cho Dharman |
| Telugu | Septabhoomi (Novel) | Bandi Narayana Swamy |
| Urdu | Sawaneh-E-Sir Syed: Ek Bazadeed (Biography) | Shafey Kidwai |
About Sahitya Akademi Awards
- Sahitya Akademi Awards is one of the highest literary awards in the country.
- The Awards are instituted by Sahitya Akademi– India’s National Academy of Letters, to commemorate the exemplary works of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages i.e. 24 languages of which 22 are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, along with English and Rajasthani.
- The Sahitya Akademi Award carries an engraved copper plaque, shawl and Rs 1 lakh, which will be presented to the winners on January 25, 2020 during the Festival of Letters organised by the Akademi.
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