| Sahitya Akademi Award for Assamese | |
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| Award for contributions to Assamese literature | |
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| Awarded for | Literary award in India |
| Sponsored by | Sahitya Akademi, Government of India |
| Reward(s) | ₹1 lakh (US$1,200) |
| First awarded | 1955 |
| Last awarded | 2023 |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 59 |
| First winner | Jatindranath Dowara |
| Most Recent winner | Pranavjyoti Deka |
| Website | Official website |
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Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature and Assamese literature in particular.[1] SAHITYA AKADEMI FELLOWSHIP,The highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a writer is by electing him as its Fellow-( three from assam honoured this prestigious award)Nagen Saikia(2019);Nilmani Phookan(2002);Syed Abdul Malik(1999)
No awards were conferred in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1971, 1973 and 2013.[2]
- ^ "Akademi Awards Information". Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ "Akademi Awards (1955-2015)". Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.