Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi | |
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Award for contributions to Hindi literature | |
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 | 2022 |
Highlights | |
First winner | Makhanlal Chaturvedi |
Most Recent winner | Badri Narayan |
Total awarded | 68 |
Website | Official website |
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 Hindi literature in particular. No Award was conferred in 1962.[1]