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4 unusual facts about Sahitya Akademi


Gopinath Kaviraj

Sahitya Akademi Award (on Tantrik vangmay mein shakt drishti), 1965

Rich Like Us

The novel brought its author the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, for her novel, Rich Like Us (1985), by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

Sisir Kumar Das

An integrated history of Indian literatures remained unwritten until Sahitya Akademi undertook the project and Das was entrusted with the task.

Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi

The Sahitya Akademi of India elected Mirashi one of its fellows in 1973.


Arvind S. Nadkarni

Arvind S. Nadkarni (1931 – May 20, 2008) was a Kannada poet from Andheri, who was awarded the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi for his work 'Atma Bharath'.

Dinesh Bhramar

He has recited his poetical works for All India Radio and Doordarshan ans delivered several lectures at seminars/conferences conducted by the Central Sahitya Akademi and other prestigious organizations.

Kutti Revathi

Revathi received the Sigaram 15: Faces of Future award for literature from India Today and was awarded a travel grant in 2005 by the Sahitya Akademi to meet leading litterateurs from India.

Laburnum For My Head

The collection brought its author the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.

Nuapada district

The Sahitya Akademi prize winning poems Kalahandi and Equation by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan were chiefly based on the poet's observation of tribal life in the Sinapali, Komana and Boden blocks of Nuapada.

Prem Parkash

Sahitya Akademi (Indian academy of letters) award-winner Prem Parkash (born April 7, 1932. Khanna, Ludhiana district) is one of the major short story writers in post-1947 East Punjabi literature.

Rana Nayar

In 2007 he won Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Literary Translation Prize for Poetry along with Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan.

Sinapali

The Sahitya Akademi award winning poem Kalahandi by Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan was based on the poet's observation of life in and around Sinapali.

Vibhuti Narain Rai

This library Sri Ramanand Saraswati Pustakalaya, Azamgarh was established to promote the culture of book reading and during its existence of 15 years it has become a prestigious cultural centre of the country which has developed a meaningful relationship with institutions like Sahitya Akademi, National Book Trust and National School of Drama.


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Panchakshari Hiremath

2005, Dr.Hiremath won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for translating Qurratulain Hyder Urdu short stories Patjhar Ki Awaz to Kannada.

Tukaram

Dilip Chitre (18 September 1938 - 10 December 2009) has translated writings of Sant Tukaram into English in the book titled Says Tuka for which he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award in 1994.