Sahitya Akademi Award

  • December 31, 2021
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Sahitya Akademi Award

Subject – Governance

Context – NamitaGokhale, Tamil writer Ambai win SahityaAkademi Award

Concept –

  • SahityaAkademi award established in 1954, is a literary honour that is conferred annually by SahityaAkademi, India’s National Academy of letters.
  • Akademi gives 24 awards annually to literary works in the languages it has recognized and an equal number of awards to literary translations from and into the languages of India.
  • Besides the 22 languages enumerated in the Constitution of India, the SahityaAkademi has recognised English and Rajasthani as languages in which its programme may be implemented.
  • The SahityaAkademi award is the second-highest literary honour by the Government of India, after the Jnanpith award.
  • Tamil feminist writer Ambai, Kannada biographer DS Nagabhushan, Telugu poet GoretiVenkanna, and English author NamitaGokhale, among others, are this year’s winners of the SahityaAkademi Award.

Criteria for Choosing Awardee

  • The author must be of Indian Nationality.
  • Book/work eligible for the award must be an outstanding contribution to the language and literature to which it belongs.
  • When equal merit for books of two or more are found, certain criteria like total literary contribution and standing of authors shall be taken into consideration for declaring award.
Governance Sahitya Akademi Award