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3 unusual facts about Sahitya Akademi Award


Erkkara Raman Nambudiri

Erkkara’s first book "Aamnaaya Mathhanam" got him the Sahitya Akademi Award.

M. P. Veerendra Kumar

A prominent writer in Malayalam, he won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 for his travelogue Haimavatha Bhoovil.

#Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award(2010) - for Haimavatha bhoovil


Abburi Chayadevi

She has won Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu for the Year 2005, for her work Tana Margam (Short Stories).

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'.

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.

Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury

Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury (1924–2008) was a noted Assamese litterateur, Sahitya Akademi Award winner and an academician basically from Gauripur in Assam.

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.


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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.