List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Kannada

Sahitya Akademi Award for Kannada
Award for contributions to Kannada literature
Award
Awarded forLiterary award in India
Sponsored bySahitya Akademi, Government of India
Reward(s)1 lakh (US$1,200)
First awarded1955
Last awarded2023
Highlights
Total awarded69
First winnerKuvempu
Recent winnerLakshmisha Tolpadi
Websitesahitya-akademi.gov.in
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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 Kannada literature in particular.[1][2] No Awards were conferred in 1957 and 1963.[3]

  1. ^ Kannada Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Sahitya Akademi Official website. Archived 26 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Kannada Sahitya Academy Award Winners list from the official website". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Akademi Awards (1955-2015)". Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.