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21 winners announced for Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024 including Hindi poet Gagan Gill and English writer Easterine Kire.
Awards given for poetry, novels, short stories, essays, literary criticism, play, and research.
Sahitya Akademi Awards
Sahitya Akademi award established in 1954, is a literary honour that is conferred annually by Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of letters.
Akademi gives 24 awards annually to literary works in the languages it has recognized and an equal number of awards to literary translations from and into the languages of India.
Besides the 22 languages enumerated in the Constitution of India, the Sahitya Akademi has recognised English and Rajasthani as languages in which its programme may be implemented.
The Sahitya Akademi award is the second-highest literary honour by the Government of India, after the Jnanpith award.
Criteria for Choosing Awardee:
The author must be of Indian Nationality.
Book/work eligible for the award must be an outstanding contribution to the language and literature to which it belongs.
When equal merit for books of two or more are found, certain criteria like total literary contribution and standing of authors shall be taken into consideration for declaring the award.
The Award in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and an amount of Rs. 1,00,000/- towards each
Other Sahitya Akademi Awards
Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar is given to an author based on his/her total contribution to children literature and relates to books first published during the five years immediately preceding the year of Award.
Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar relates to books published by an author of the age of 35 and below.
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