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Sahitya Akademi Award for English Award for contributions to English literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First award 1960 Final award 2024 Highlights Total awarded 53 First winner R. K. Narayan Most Recent winner Easterine Kire Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in English. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹ 50,000. [ 1 ]
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. [2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
A. J. Thomas (born 10 June 1952) is an Indian poet, translator and editor writing in English. He is best known as editor of Indian Literature , the bimonthly English journal of Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters) which he edited till 2010.
Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) [1] is an Indian writer.He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. [3]
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize or Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation is a literary honour in India, presented by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, given to "outstanding translations of creative and critical works" in 24 major Indian languages [1] such as English, Rajasthani and the 22 listed languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution recognised by the ...
Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972) is an Indian poet, writer and translator from Odisha.He is best known for his poem collection "Kalahandi" which was awarded second place in Sahitya Akademi's Golden Jubilee Indian Literature Translation Prize for Poetry in 2007.
K. Srilata (also known as Srilata Krishnan) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and academic based in Chennai. [1] Her poem, In Santa Cruz, Diagnosed Home Sick won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition (organized by the British Council and The Poetry Society (India)) in 1998. [2]