| Sahitya Akademi Award | |
|---|---|
| Award for individual contributions to Literature | |
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| Awarded for | Literary award in India |
| Sponsored by | Sahitya Akademi, Government of India |
| Last awarded | 2023 |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 60+24(2023) |
| Website | sahitya-akademi.gov.in |
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The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.[1][2]
Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹ 1,00,000.[3] The award's purpose is to recognise and promote excellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the preceding twelve months. The plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi was designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray.[4] Prior to this, the plaque occasionally was made of marble, but this practice was discontinued because of the excessive weight. During the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965, the plaque was substituted with national savings bonds.[5]
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- ^ "Akademi Awards". National Academy of Letters. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
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- ^ Coppola, Carlo (1968). "The Sahitya Akademi Award, 1967". Mahfil. 5 (1): 9–26.