Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
Award Information
Category Literature (Individual)
Instituted 1968
First Awarded 1968
Last Awarded 2007
Awarded by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Description Literary award
in India
First Awardee(s) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Last Awardee(s) Anita Desai, Ravindra Kalelkar,
Kartar Singh Duggal

The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India. Awarded by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, to the "immortals of literature," and limited to twenty one individuals at any given time,[1] it is the highest literary honour conferred by the Government of India. [2] The fellowship was established in 1968 and the first elected fellow was the philosopher and statesman, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In addition to the twenty one fellowships, a handful of honorary fellowships have been awarded to international scholars of Indian literature.

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[edit] List of Fellows

(Year - Name )

[edit] 1968

1. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1898-1975), philosopher and statesman.

[edit] 1969

2. Sri C. Rajagopalachari (1879-1972), statesman, Tamil writer and translator.

3. Sri Tarasankar Bandyopadhyaya (1898-1971), Bengali novelist.

4. Sri Sumitranandan Pant (1900-1977), Hindi poet.

5. Sri Dr. D. R. Bendre (1896-1981), Kannada poet.

[edit] 1970

6. Dr. Viswanadha Satyanarayana (1895-1976), Telugu poet.

7. Sri Raghupati Sahay `Firaq Gorakhpuri' (1896-1982), Urdu poet.

8. Sri Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1910-1994), Malayalam novelist and short-story writer.

9. Sri Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1898-1976), Marathi novelist.

[edit] 1971

10. Mm. Gopinath Kaviraj (1877-1976), Sanskrit scholar and philosopher.

11. Sri D. B. Kakasaheb Kalelkar (1885-1981), Gujarati poet, travelogue writer, and essayist.

12. Sri Gurbaksh Singh Preet Lari (1895-1977), Punjabi novelist and short story writer.

13. Sri Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901-1991), Oriya poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist.

[edit] 1973

14. Prof. M. U. Malkani (1896-1980), Sindhi writer.

15. Sri Nilamani Phukan (1879-1978)

16. Prof. Vasudev Sihnu Mirashi (1893-1985), Sanskrit scholar.

17. Prof. V. R. Trivedi (1899-1991)

18. Dr. Sukumar Sen (1900-1992), Bengali linguist.

19.. Dr. Masti Venkatesa Iyengar (1891-1986), Kannada writer.

[edit] 1975

20. Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaran (1899-1980), Dravidian linguist.

[edit] 1979

21. Sri A. R. Deshpande `Anil' (1901-1982), Marathi poet.

22. Sri Jainendra Kumar (1905-1988), Hindi novelist.

23. Dr. K. V. Puttappa `Kuvempu' (1904-1994), Kannada writer and poet.

241. Dr. V. Raghavan (1908-1979), Sanskrit scholar.

25. Susri Mahadevi Verma (1907-1987), Hindi poet.

[edit] 1985

26. Prof. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908-1999)

27. Prof. Umashankar Joshi (1911-1988)

28. Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (1902-1997)

[edit] 1989

29. Sri Tarkateertha Laxmanshastri Joshi (1901-1994), Sanskrit and Marathi scholar.

30. Sri Annada Shankar Ray(1904-2002), Bengali poet and essayist.

31. Dr. Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004), English novelist.

32. Prof. Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1909-1992), Kannada writer and scholar.

33. Sri Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912-1999), Malayalam novelist and short story writer.

34. Sri Amritlal Nagar (1916-1990), Hindi writer.

[edit] 1994

35. Smt. Ashapurna Devi (1909-1995), Bengali novelist and poet.

36. Sri R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), English novelist.

37. Dr. P. T. Narasimhachar (1905-1998), Kannada poet.

38. Smt. N. Balamani Amma (1909-2004), Malayalam poet.

39. Dr. V. B. Kolte (1908-1998), Marathi scholar.

40. Ms. Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Urdu novelist and short story writer.

41. Sri Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1906-1994), Oriya novelist.

42. Dr. Harbhajan Singh (1919-2002), Punjabi poet.

43. Sri Nagarjun (1911-1998), Hindi and Maithili poet.

[edit] 1996

44. Sri Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916-2004), Oriya short story writer and poet.[3]

45. Ms. Krishna Sobti (1925), Hindi writer.[4]

46. Prof. Vidya Niwas Mishra (1926-2005), Hindi and Sanskrit scholar.

47. Sri Vinda Karandikar (1918), Marathi poet.

48. Sri Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919-2003), Bengali poet.

49 Sri D. Jayakanthan (1934), Tamil writer, essayist, and critic.

50. Sri Raja Rao (1908), English novelist.

[edit] 1999

51. Sri Ram Vilas Sharma (1912-2000)

52. Sri Rajendra Shah (1913)

53. Sri Gunturu Seshendra Sharma (1927)

54. Sri Syed Abdul Malik (1919-2000)

55. Pandit N. Khelchandra Singh (1920)

56. Sri K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1915-2003)

[edit] 2000

57. Prof. R. N. Dandekar (1909-2001)

58. Prof. Rahman Rahi (1925)

[edit] 2001

59. Prof. Ramnath Shastri (1914)

[edit] 2002[5]

60. Sri Kaifi Azmi (1925 - 2002), Urdu poet.

61. Sri Nilamani Phookan (1933), Assamese poet.

62. Sri Bhisham Sahni (1915-2003), Hindi fiction writer.

63. Sri Govind Chandra Pandey (1923)

[edit] 2004

64. Professor U. R. Anantha Murthy (1932)

65. Smt. Amrita Pritam (1919-2005)

66. Sri Sankha Ghosh (1932)

67. Sri Vijaydan Detha (1926)

68. Professor Bh. Krishnamurthi (1928)

[edit] 2005[6]

69. Nirmal Verma (1929-2005), Hindi writer and novelist.

70. Kovilan (Vattamparampil Velappan Ayyappan) (1923), Malayalam novelist.

[edit] 2006

71. Sri Vishnu Prabhakar (1912), Hindi writer.

72. Prof. Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer.

[edit] 2007[7]

73. Prof. Anita Desai, English novelist.

74. Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani writer.[8]

75. Kartar Singh Duggal, Punjabi writer.

[edit] List of Honorary Fellows

[edit] 1974

1. Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2002), Senegalese poet, cultural theorist, and statesman.

[edit] 1996

2. Prof. Edward C. Dimock, Jr. (1929-2001), Bengali scholar.

3. Prof. Daniel H. H. Ingalls (1916), Sanskrit scholar.

4. Prof. Kamil V. Zvelebil (1927), scholar of Dravidian linguistics.

5. Prof. Ji Xianlin (1911), Sanskrit scholar and translator.[9]

[edit] 2002

6. Dr. Vassilis Vitsaxis (1920)

7. Prof. E. P. Chelyshev (1921)

[edit] 2007

8. Prof. R. E. Asher

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sahitya Academi Fellowships
  2. ^ Report from The Hindu, January 2007.: the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
  3. ^ Also spelled Sachi Raut-Roy, Sachi Raut-Ray, Sachi Rautroy.
  4. ^ Krishna Sobti, 1925-
  5. ^ Bhisham Sahni, Kaifi Azmi in Sahitya Akademi
  6. ^ Nirmal Verma, Kovilan elected Sahitya Akademi Fellows
  7. ^ Anita Desai among Sahitya Akademi Fellows
  8. ^ Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for Kalelkar
  9. ^ Ji Xianlin, A Gentle Academic Giant.

[edit] External links

Official Site for Sahitya Akademi Award