Ananda Purashkar

The Ananda Purashkar (Bengali: আনন্দ পুরস্কার Anondo Puroshkar) (literally Ananda Award) is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by Ananda Publishers to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India. Some of the recipients are mentioned below. Ananda Purashkar was awarded to Bangla Academy, Bangladesh in 1993 which Bangla Academy declined to accept.

Awardees

• 1958 – Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
• 1961 – Syed Mujtaba Ali
• 1966 – Sukumar Sen
• 1967 – Bimal Kar
• 1968 – Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya
• 1970 - Gour Kishore Ghosh
• 1971 – Satyajit Ray
• 1973 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
• 1976 – Buddhadeb Guha – Halud Basanta (novel)
• 1981 – Sanjib Chattopadhyay
• 1982 – Samaresh Majumdar
• 1983 – Annada Shankar Ray
• 1984 – Subhas Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Palit, Sukumar Sen
• 1985 – Aloke Ranjan Dasgupta
• 1986 – Sunil Gangopadhyay
• 1987 – Ketaki Kushari Dyson & Sushobhan Adhikari – Ranger Rabindranath (on Tagore's colour vision)
• 1988 – Abul Bashar
• 1989 – Jay Goswami – Ghumiechho, Jhaupata? (poetry)
• 1990 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay – Doorbeen (novel)
• 1991 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Jaya Mitra
• 1992 – Taslima Nasrin – Nirbachito Column (articles)
• 1993 – Bangla Academy, Bangladesh : Bangla Academy declined to accept the award.
• 1994 – Annada Shankar Ray, Shamsur Rahman
• 1995 – Debarati Mitra – Smriti Bole Kichhu Nei (poetry)
• 1996 – Akhtaruzzaman Elias – Khwabnama (novel)
• 1997 – Bani Basu – Maitreya Jatak (novel)
• 1998 – Jay Goswami – Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo (novel in verse)
• 1999 – Mandakranta Sen – Hriday Abadhya Meye (poetry) Image
• 2000 – Taslima Nasrin – Amar Meyebela (memoirs)
• 2001 – Gauriprasad Ghosh – Everyman's Dictionary
• 2002 – Sudhir Chakrabarti – Baul Fakir Katha (folk culture)
• 2003 – Tilottama Majumdar – Basudhara (novel)
• 2004 – Srijato – Uranto Sab Joker (poetry)
• 2005 – Mihir Sengupta – Bishad Briksha (autobiography)
• 2006 – Utpal Kumar Basu – Sukh-Duhkher Sathi (poetry)
• 2007 – Dhritikanta Lahiri Chaudhuri – Hatir Boi (on elephants)
• 2008 – Hasan Azizul Huq – Agunpakhi (novel)
• 2009 – Ranajit Guha – Kabir Naam O Sarbanaam
• 2010 - Sunanda Sikdar - Dayamayir Katha
• 2011 - Gautam Bhadra - Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?

External links

• বৈশাখী সন্ধ্যায় অভিধানগ্রন্থকে আনন্দ সম্মান, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 22, 2001
• আনন্দ পুরস্কার পাচ্ছেন বাউল–ফকিরদের কথাকার, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 15, 2002
• প্রবীণের উচ্ছ্বাস‚ নবীনের অঙ্গীকারে উদ্বেল আনন্দসন্ধ্যায় পুরস্কৃত তিলোত্তমা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 27, 2003
• আনন্দ–সন্ধ্যায় শ্রীজাতকে সাহিত্য–শিরোপা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 18, 2004
• অকপট আত্মজীবনীকে কুর্নিশ আনন্দ–সন্ধ্যায়, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 24, 2005
• আত্মস্থ‚ মিতভাষ কবিকে আনন্দ শিরোপা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 30, 2006
• যুক্তিকে কুর্নিশ করছে আনন্দ পুরস্কার, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 15, 2007
• হৃদয় ও মস্তিষ্কের মেলবন্ধনে উজ্জ্বল আনন্দসন্ধ্যা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 27, 2008
• আনন্দ-সম্মানই ঘরে ফেরাল প্রবাসী রণজিৎকে, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 26, 2009
• Contributors to the Rabindranath Section of Parabaas, Biographical data in website of Parabaas Bookstore
• বটতলায় গিয়েই আনন্দ ন্যাড়ার, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 15, 2011

See also

• Rabindra Puraskar
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
• Bangla Academy Award