Sahitya Akademi Award 2021- Winners

31 Dec,21 9:30 am
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The Sahitya Akademi announced its prestigious “Sahitya Akademi Awards, Yuva Puraskar and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar” for 2021 in various languages on December 30, 2021.

Sahitya Akademi Awards 2021
The Sahitya Akademy Awards 2021 were given in 20 Indian languages.

• Author Namita Gokhale won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 in English for her novel ‘Things to Leave Behind’.

• Other winners include:

  1. Anuradha Sarma Pujari (Assamese)
  2. Bratya Basu (Bengali)
  3. Mwdai Gahai (Bodo)
  4. Raj Rahi (Dogri)
  5. Daya Prakash Sinha (Hindi) for “Samrat Ashok”
  6. Wali Mohd Aseer Kashtawari (Kashmiri)
  7. Khalid Hussain (Punjabi)
  8. Niranjan Hansda (Santali)
  9. Vindeshwari prasad Mishr “Vinay” (Sanskrit)
  10. Ambai (Tamil)
  11. Gorati Venkanna (Telugu)..
    • Winner of Gujarati, Manipuri, Maithili, and Urdu languages will be announced at a later date.
    Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2021
    • The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2021 was given in 22 Indian languages.
    • Megha Majumdar won the Yuva Puraskar for her debut novel "A Burning" and Himanshu Vajpai won it for his collection of short stories titled "Kissa Kissa Lucknowa -- Lucknow Ke Awami Kisse".

• Other winners of Yuva Puraskar include:

  1. Abhijit Bora (Assamese)
  2. Gourob Chakraborty (Bengali)
  3. Drashti Soni (Gujarati)
  4. Himanshu Vajpai (Hindi)
  5. Mahesh Dahal (Nepali)
  6. Swetapadma Satapathy (Sanskrit) etc.

The Yuva Puraskar for Tamil will be declared at a later date, and there will be no award in Rajasthani this year.

Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2021
• The Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2021 was given in 22 Indian languages.
• Anita Vachharajani won the award in the English language. She was awarded for her children’s book titled ‘Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel With A Paintbrush’.
• Other winners include:

  1. Mrinal Chandra Kalita (Assamese)
  2. Sunirmal Chakraborty (Bengali)
  3. Devendra Mewari (Hindi)
  4. Majeed Majazi (Kashmiri) etc.
    The Sahitya Akademi Award
    The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major Indian languages such as Tamil, English, Bengali, Punjabi and the 22 listed languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution recognised by the Sahitya Akademi.

The award was instituted in 1954.


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