Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Winners of The Sahitya Academy Awards
Winners of The Sahitya Academy Awards
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Year Book Writer
Books
1960 The Guide R. K. Narayan Novel
1964 The Serpent and the Rope Raja Rao Novel
1965 The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin Verrier Elwin Autobiography
Bhabani
1967 Shadow From Ladakh Novel
Bhattacharya
1969 An Artist in Life Niharranjan Ray Biography
1971 Morning Face Mulk Raj Anand Novel
1975 Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C. Chaudhuri Biography
1976 Jawaharlal Nehru Sarvepalli Gopal Biography
1977 Azadi Chaman Nahal Novel
1978 Fire on the Mountain Anita Desai Novel
1979 Inside the Haveli Rama Mehta Novel
K. R. Srinivasa
1980 On the Mother Biography
Iyengar
1981 Relationship Jayanta Mahapatra Poetry
1982 The Last Labyrinth Arun Joshi Novel
1983 Latter-Day Psalms Nissim Ezekiel Poetry
1984 The Keeper of the Dead Keki N. Daruwalla Poetry
1985 Collected Poems Kamala Das Poetry
1986 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal Novel
1987 Trapfalls In the Sky Shiv K. Kumar Poetry
1988 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth Novel
1989 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh Novel
1990 That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande Novel
1991 The Trotter-Nama I. Allan Sealy Novel
1992 Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra Ruskin Bond Short Stories
1993 After Amnesia G. N. Devy Essays
1994 Serendip Dom Moraes Poetry
1996 Memories of Rain Sunetra Gupta Novel
1998 Final Solutions and Other Plays Mahesh Dattani Drama
1999 The Collected Poems A. K. Ramanujan Poetry
2000 Cuckold Kiran Nagarkar Novel
2001 Rajaji: A Life Rajmohan Gandhi Biography
2002 A New World Amit Chaudhuri Novel
Meenakshi
2003 The Perishable Empire Essays
Mukherjee
Upamanyu
2004 The Mammaries of the Welfare State Novel
Chatterjee
2005 The Algebra of Infinite Justice Arundhati Roy Essays
2006 The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa Novel
2007 Disorderly Women Malathi Rao Novel
Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Chaturvedi
2009 Criticism
Human Condition Badrinath
2010 The Book of Rachel Esther David Novel
Ramachandra Historical
2011 India after Gandhi[3]
Guha Narrative
2012 These Errors are Correct Jeet Thayil Poetry
2013 Laburnum For My Head Temsula Ao Short stories
2014 Trying to Say Goodbye Adil Jussawalla Poetry
2015 Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer Cyrus Mistry Novel
2016 Em and the Big Hoom Jerry Pinto Novel
2017 The Black Hill Mamang Dai Novel