List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu

Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu
Award for contributions to Urdu literature
Awarded forLiterary award in India
Sponsored bySahitya Akademi, Government of India
Reward(s)1 lakh (US$1,200)
First awarded1955
Last awarded2023
Highlights
Total awarded63
First winnerZafar Hussain Khan
Most Recent winnerSadiqua Nawab Saher
WebsiteOfficial website
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Sahitya Akademi Award is an annual literary honour, given 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. Urdu is one of 24 languages in which the award is given.[1][2]

  1. ^ Urdu Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007 Archived 2009-09-16 at the Wayback Machine Sahitya Akademi Official website.
  2. ^ "Akademi Awards (1955-2015)". Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.