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 Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007

ASSAMESE  BENGALI  BODO DOGRI ENGLISH
GUJARATI  HINDI  KANNADA KASHMIRI KONKANI
 MAITHILI   MALAYALAM   MANIPURI  MARATHI  NEPALI
 ORIYA   PUNJABI  RAJASTHANI  SANSKRIT SANTHALI
SINDHI  TAMIL  TELUGU  URDU  

  ENGLISH
Year Book Author
2007  Disorderly Women (Novel)  Malathi Rao
2006  The Sari Shop (Novel)  Rupa Bajwa
2004 The Mammaries of the Welfare State (Novel) Upamanyu Chatterjee
2003 The Perishable Empire: Essays On Indian Writing In English (Essays) Meenakshi Mukherjee
2002  A New World (Novel)  Amit Chaudhuri
2001 Rajaji : A Life (Biography) Rajmohan Gandhi
2000 Cuckold (Novel) Kiran Nagarkar
1999 The collected poems of A. K. Ramanujan (Poetry) *A. K. Ramanujan
1998 Final Solutions and Other Plays (Plays) Mahesh Dattani
1996 Memories of Rain (Novel) Sunetra Gupta
1994 Serendip (Poetry) Dom Moraes
1993 After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism (Criticism) G.N. Devy
1992 Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (Short stories) Ruskin Bond
1991 The Trotter-Nama (Novel) I. Allan Sealy
1990 That Long Silence (Novel) Shashi Deshpande
1989 The Shadow Lines (Novel) Amitav Ghosh
1988 The Golden Gate (Novel in verse) Vikram Seth
1987 Trapfalls in the Sky (Poetry) Shiv K. Kumar
1986 Rich Like Us (Novel) Nayantara Sahgal
1985 Collected Poems (Poetry) Kamala Das
1984 The Keeper of the Dead (Poetry) Keki N. Daruwalla
1983 Latter-Day Psalms (Poetry) Nissim Ezekiel
1982 The Last Labyrinth (Novel) Arun Joshi
1981 Relationship (Poetry) Jayant Mahapatra
1980 On the Mother, Vol. I & II (Biography) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
1979 Inside the Haveli (Novel) *Rama Mehta
1978 Fire on the Mountain (Novel) Anita Desai
1977 Azadi (Novel) Chaman Nahal
1976 Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1947) (Biography) S. Gopal
1975 Scholar Extraordinary (Biography) Nirad C. Chaudhury
1971 Morning Face (Novel) Mulk Raj Anand
1969 An Artist in Life (Study of Tagore) Niharranjan Ray
1967 Shadow from Ladakh (Novel) Bhabani Bhattacharya
1965 The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin (Autobiography) *Verrier Elwin
1963 The Serpent and the Rope (Novel) Raja Rao
1960 The Guide (Novel) R.K. Narayan
     
  (No awards in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1995 and 1997)  

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