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Sahitya Akademi has
many strategies of reaching out to smaller cities and interior
villages of India, the chief of them being book exhibitions.
Every year we directly organise about thirty exhibitions of our
publications and also take part in exhibitions organised by other
agencies. These agencies are spread all over India and are well-received
by the reading public. Some of the big national exhibitions we
take part in are Patna Book Fair in Bihar, Calcutta Book Fair
in West Bengal, Lucknow Book Fair in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi
Book Fair. Our books are also exhibited in international book
fairs like Sri Lankan Book Fair, London Book Fair and Frankfurt
Book Fair. Besides we hold an Annual Book Exhibition in Delhi
in January every year. We also exhibit our books during our Seminars,
especially those related to the themes. We are also invited by
colleges to exhibit our books in their premises. These exhibitions
not only contribute to our annual turnover, but are opportunities
for interaction among the publisher, the writer and the reader.
We organise special
At present the Akademi is striving to expand its book-promotion activity by opening new sales counters, |
Sahitya Akademi also organises book releases from time to time. Books of a very special nature are alone released during these functions. Anthologies like Modern Indian Literature and Medieval Indian Literature, the Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, the selections from Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz, a selection from contemporary Burmese stories and Chengiz Aituretou's futuristic Russian novel Ttavo Cassandry and three novels of the Siberian writer Valentine Rasputin, all in Hindi translation and a selection from Jibanananda Das' Bengali poems in English translation 'A Certain Sense', are some of the books thus released in recent years. Releases have been done by the successive Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Prime Ministers of India who have generally been book lovers,  and by eminent writers and scholars. These
functions acquaint the readers with the contents of the book
and also with our publication schemes in general.
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| Date | Occasion | Venue |
| To be decided | Book Exhibitions and Book Fairs to be held. |
Various Places |
| Several Book Exhibitions were held at different places. | ||
| 3-5 December 2004 | A three-day Book Exhibition Organized on the occasion of Seminar on New Voices of The Eastern Zone. Several Book Exhibitions were held at different places. |
Bhubaneswar |
| 6 June 2004 | A two-day Book Exhibition during the book release function of the Tamil translation Porattam was held. Several Book Exhibitions were held at different places including Sanehalli, Karnataka, Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. |
Bangalore |
| 6-7 September 2003 |
Several Book Exhibitions were held at different places including Chennai, Silchar, Howrah, Malda, Hooghly, Bangalore, Karad, Mysore, Batanagar, Shillong, Hoogly, Kolkata, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Srinagar, Barnala, Faridkot, Chandigarh, Madurai and Mumbai. A two-day literary programme and Book Exhibition and sale was held in collaboration with Dr. A.V. Baliga College and Abhinava Cultural Forum, Kumta. |
Kumta (Karnataka) |
| 26 November - 7 December 2002 |
Annual Book Exhibition inaugurated by Professor Indira Goswami, renowned Assamese writer and recipient of Sahitya Akademi and Bharatiya Jnanpith Award. Several Book Exhibitions were held at different places |
New Delhi |
| 31 August 2002 | A colloquium on What does a book mean to me ? organised in the context of the 8th Delhi Book Fair. Professor Gopi Chand Narang, Sri Ashok Vajpeyi, Sri Ramchandra Gandhi, Sri Harprasad Das, Sri Upamanyu Chatterjee, Sri Suresh Kohli, Ms Urvashi Bhutalia, Sri D.R. Ankur, Ms Kumkum Sangari and Ms Antara Dev Sen participated. | New Delhi |
| 6 - 7 November 2001 |
A Book Exhibition and Literary Cultural Events programme was held. A number of book exhibitions were organised at various places such as Madlugiri (Karnataka), Kotturu and Hosdurga (Karnataka), Dehra Dun, Aizwal, Mangalore, Bangalore, Nagpur, Mumbai, Barpeta, Bikaner, Delhi, Dharwar, Guwahati, Patna, Kurukshetra, Imphal, Assam, Kolkata, Surat, West Bengal, Burdwan, Malda, Hampi, Cochbehar and other places from October 2001 till September 2002. |
Ujire (Karnataka) |
| 27 October - 1 November 2001 | Annual Book exhibition inaugurated by Sri Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, Director, National Book Trust, India. | New Delhi |
| 1-8 March 2001 | Participated in Cochin Book Fair. | Cochin |
| 26 February to 7 March 2001 | A Book Exhibition and Literary Cultural Events programme was held. | Bhubaneswar |
| 25 February to 6 March 2001 | Participated in Kannada Pustak Mahotasava. | Bangalore |
| 19-24 February 2001 | Akademi 2000 Exhibition inaugurated by Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay, eminent Bengali writer. The Exhibition was organised as part of the Annual Festival of Letters. | New Delhi |
| 18 February to 23 March 2001 | Participated in Berhampur Book Fair. | Berhampur |
| 10 February 2001 | Organised Book Exhibition at Chellakere. | Chellakere |
| 29 January to 7 February 2001 | Participated in Kottayam Book Fair. | Kottayam |
| 27 Janualry to 5 February 2001 | Participated in National Book Fair. | Bilaspur |
| 26-31 January 2001 | Participated in Book Exhibition Yeotmul. | Yeotmul |
| 5-14 January 2001 | Participated in Chennai Book Fair. | Chennai |
| 1-7 January 2001 | Participated in Kannada Pustaka Mela. | Bangalore |
| 30 December 2001 to 7 January 2001 | Participated in Mumbai National Book Fair. | Mumbai |
| 30 December 2000 to 4 January 2001 | Participated in Exhibition on the occasion of World Philosophy. | New Delhi |
| 24-25 December 2000 | Organised Book Exhibition during the Sanskrit Griha Sammelan | Bangalore |
| 1-11 December 2000 | Participated in the 15th Hyderabad Book Fair | Hyderabad |
| 29 December 2000 to 9 January 2001 | Participated in the 15th Guwahati Book Fair organised by the Publication Board, Assam | Guwahati |
| 15-21 December 2000 | Participated in the 9th Imphal Book Fair organised by the State Central Library in collaboration with Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation | Imphal |
| 25 November
to 3 December 2000 |
Participated in the in Trichy Book Fair | Trichy |
| 14-20 November 2000 | Organised National Book-week | Gadag (Karnataka) |
| 11-19 November 2000 | Participated in 'Granthosav' Book Fair organised by the Y.B. Chavan Centre | Mumbai |
| 14-20 November 2000 | Organised a Book Exhibition-cum-sale in collaboration with department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal | Siliguri |
| 3-13 November 2000 | Organised an Annual Book Exhibition which was inaugurated by Dr. K. S. Duggal | New Delhi |
| 13-22 October 2000 | Participated in the Jallandhar Book Fair | Jallandhar |
| 6-10 October 2000 | Organised Kannada Book Exhibition in collaboration with Rashtrakavi Govind Pai Samshodhan Kendra | Upupi |
| 23-25 October 2000 | Organised Telugu Book Exhibition in collaboration with Siddhartha Kalapeetham | Vijayawada |
| 27-29 September 2000 | Participated in the book Exhibition arranged by the Department of Linguistics and English,Jawaharlal Nehru University during their seminar on South Asain Diaspora | New Delhi |
| 9-10 September 2000 | Organised exhibition during the International Seminar on 'Pash' | Jalandhar |
| 9-10 September 2000 | Organised a two day Urdu and Kannada book exhibition in collaboration with the Siasat Daily | Bangalore |
| 1-10 September 2000 | Organised an Annual Book Exhibition | Trivandrum |
| 12-20 August 2000 | Participated in the Sixth Delhi Book Fair | New Delhi |
| 30 May to 4 June 2000 | Participated in the Shimla Book Fair | Shimla |
| 25 to 29 May 2000 | Participated in the Annual Darjeeling Book Fair | Darjeeling |
| 29 April 2000 to 7 May 2000 | Participated in the 18th Darjeeling Zilla Grantha Mala | Siliguri |
| 22 April 2000 | Organised book exhibition during seminar on'Book Review of Indian Books' held by katha | New Delhi |
| 12 April 2000 | Exhibition-cum-sale of Tamil books during Award Function of Ilakkiya Chintanai | Chennai |
| 31 March to 2 April 2000 | Book Exhibition held during the Zilla Kannada Sahitya Sammelan | Bantawada (Mangalore) |
| 29 March 2000 | Book exhibition
held at International Institute of Tamil Studies, Taramani during the International Workshop on 'World- wide History of Tamil Literature' conducted by IITS. Delegates from Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and Sri Lanka evinced keen interest in our books. |
Taramani (Tamilnadu) |
| 17-19 March 2000 | Participated during the silver Jubilee function of Department of Telugu, Bangalore University at Central College Campus | Bangalore |
| 14 March to13 April 2000 | As a part
of ter-centenary celebration of the birth of Khalsa a month long
book exhibition was held at National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi in collaboration with M/s National Book Shop. The exhibition was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Sri Atal Behari Vajpeyi |
New Delhi |
| 26 February to7 March 2000 | Sahitya Akademi, Regional Office, Calcutta participated in Bhubaneswar Book Fair | Bhubanesear |
| 23-27 February to 2000 | Arranged Book Exhibition at Rabindra Bhavan on the occasion of Festival of Letters | New Delhi |
| 17-23 February 2000 | Participated in Berhampur Book Fair at Khalikhote College Campus | Berhampur (Orissa) |
| 5-13 February to 2000 | Participated in the 14th World Book Fair held at Pragati Maidan | New Delhi |
| 28 January
to 6 February 2000 |
Participated in 16th Kottayam International Book Fair organised by Darsana Cultural Centre, Kottayam | Kottayam |
| 26 January
to 6 February 2000 |
Sahitya Akademi Regional Office, Calcutta participated in the 25th Calcutta Book Fair organised by the publishers and Book- sellers Guild | Calcutta |
| 13-14 January 2000 | Participated in the book-exhibition at University of Delhi organised by Progressive Student Union | New Delhi |
| 7-16 January 2000 | Participated in the 23rd Chennai Book Fair 2000 organised by Bapsi,Chennai | Chennai |
| 5-13 January 2000 | Sahitya Akademi, Regional Office, Bangalore, Participated in the Antharrastra Pustakotsava - Kochi 2000 | Ernakulam |
| 1-9 January 2000 | Participated in the Jabalpur Book Exhibition | Jabalpur |
| 29 December
1999 to 5 January 2000 |
Participated in Madurai Book Fair organis- ed by Rotary Club of Madurai South | Madurai |
| 17-26 December 1999 | Participated in the Pondicherry Book Fair conducted by Department of Art & Culture | Pondicherry |
| 17-26 December 1999 | Regional Office, Calcutta participated in 3rd Dibrugarh Book Fair organised by Milan Jyoti Sangha | Dibrugarh |
| 17-24 December 1999 | Participated in Book Exhibition organised by M/s Jaison Stationers | Indore |
| 15-21 December 1999 | Regional Office, Calcutta participated in book Fair organised by State Central Library | Imphal |
| 27 November
to 26 December 1999 |
Chennai Office participated in Book Exhibition conducted by Rotary Club of Tiruchirapalli | Tiruchi |
| 24-31 October 1999 | Participated in the 2nd Ghaziabad Book Fair | Ghaziabad |
| 22-31 October 1999 | Annual Book Exhibition organised | New Delhi |
| 29 September
to 5 October 1999 |
Participated in Book Exhibition organised by Marathi Grantha Prakashak Sanghathan in Collaboration with Maharashtra Vyapari Peth | Mumbai |
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| 28 September 2005 | Mulk Raj Anand, compiled and edited by Atma Ram to be released by Sri S.M. Krishna, the Governor of Mumbai at his residence on the ocassion of the death anniversary of Mulk Raj Anand. | Mumbai |
| 26 September 2005 | A programme to release Listen Janamejaya, English translation of Sriranga's plays, was held in collaboration with Karnataka Nataka Akademi and Abhinaya Bharati. The programme also included lectures. | Dharwad |
| 11 August 2005 | English translation Adityan, Radha and others by C. Gopinathan Pillai of M. Mukundan's Adityanum, Radhayum Mattu Chilarum in Malayalam released by Sri M. T. Vasudevan Nair at a literary form meeting. | Chennai |
| 14 April 2005 | A programme was held to release the book in Tamil translation Amaippumaiyavaadam, Pin Amaippiyal Matrum Keezhai Kaaviya Iyal done by Dr. H. Balasubramaniam of the Akademi's award winning Urdu book Saakhtiyaat Pas-Saakhtiyaat Aur Mashriqi Sheriyaat by Professor Gopi Chand Narang . Professor S.P. Thyagarajan, Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras, released the book, while Dr. K. Panjangam, Member of the General Council of the Akademi, received and introduced the book. Dr. R. Balachandran ‘Bala', Convener of the Tamil Advisory Board of the Akademi presided. Smt. G. Thilakavathi, Member of the General Council of the Akademi, offered felicitations while Dr. H. Balasubramaniam spoke on the occasion. | Chennai |
| 1 February 2005 | Pulakit, Gujarati translation of select essays, reminiscences and pen portraits of Pu.La. Deshpande, was released by Chandrakant Topiwala, eminent Gujarati author and critic. Dr. Bholabhai Patel, member of General Council of the Akademi, was present on the occasion | Ahmedabad |
| 24 January 2005 | A programme was held in collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Bhavan to release Tandraloker Prahari, Bengali translation of Manoj Das’s Oriya novel. Smt. Mahasveta Devi released the book and Sri Angsuman Bandyopadhyay proposed a vote of thanks. Sri Dibyendu Palit presided over the programme | Kolkata |
| 29 December 2004 | A programme was held to release the Bengali title, Kavitacharya, a selection of Bengali poems and workshop discussion. Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay, Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi, released the book and delivered the presidential address. Sri Dibyendu Palit, Convener of the Bengali Advisory Board, was the chief-guest. Professor K. Satchidanandan, Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, welcomed the guests. Ten young poets recited their poems. | Kolkata |
| 10 November 2004 | A programme was held to release a book of Ghalib’s poems in Bengali translation with the Akademi’s President Professor Gopi Chand Narang as the Chief Guest. The President released the book and spoke on the poetry of Ghalib. Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay, Vice-President of the Akademi presided | Kolkata |
| 18 July 2004 | Uptela Rangothi Risayali Bhinto, the first book of poems by Vipasha, a young Gujarati poet, was released in a special poetry event held in collaboration with Farbes Gujarati Sabha and Vikalp Prakashan. | Mumbai |
| 6 June 2004 | Tamil translation Porattam by N. Dass of the Akademi's award winning Kannada novel Bandaya by Vyasaraya Ballal was released by B.S. Mani, Editor of Sanjevani. | Bangalore |
| 23 July 2003 | A set of Akademi books in Punjabi released. | Chandigarh |
| 22 July 2003 | Kannada translations of Bheemayana and Berige Neeru were released. Sri M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Smt. Pratibha Ray, Professor Giraddi Govindaraj, Sri Seshanarayana and Professor Balachandran Bala participated in the function. | Bangalore |
| 2 June 2003 | Kannada translation of Akademi's award winning novel Karmelin (Konkani) was released by Sri A.V. Rego, President, Konkani Parishad, Bangalore. Sri Damodar Mauzo presided. | Bangalore |
| 23 May 2003 | Dalit Kahani Sanchayan was released by Kamleshwar, eminent Hindi writer. Professor Gopi Chand Narang was in the Chair and Sri Ibbar Rabbi, Ashok Bharati, Harish Mangalam, Gyan Singh Bal and Ramanika Gupta spoke on the occasion. | New Delhi |
| 19 May 2003 | English translation of Ramarajabahadur by C.V. Raman Pillai was released on the occasion of 145th birth year of the author. Sri M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Dr. P.P.Raveendran, Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker, Sri M. Mukundan, Sri C. Balachandran Chullikkad and Professor K. Satchidanandan spoke on the occasion. | Trivandrum |
| 12 May 2003 | Sri P.V. Narasimha Rao, Former Prime Minister of India released the South Asian edition of The Dravidian Languages (CUP, 2003) by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti in a function held in collaboration with Cambridge University Press and Foundation Books. Professor Gopi Chand Narang, President, Sahitya Akademi, presided; Professor K. Sachidanandan gave the welcome speech; Sri Bh. Krishnamurti spoke about the book, while Professor K.V. Subbarao introduced the author and Sri Manas Saikia proposed a vote of thanks. | New Delhi |
| 26 April 2003 | Sri Keki N. Daruwalla, Sri Kedarnath Singh and Sri Nirmal Verma released The Dark Sanctum (English), Prarthana Ke Liye Zaroori Shabd (Hindi) both by H.P. Das and Haklahat by K. Satchidanandan respectively in a function held in collaboration with Alok Parv Prakashan, Delhi. Professor Gopi Chand Narang, President, Sahitya Akademi, presided; Sri Kunwar Narain and Sri J.P.Das spoke about the books; Dr. Ranjit Saha welcomed the guests and Sri Ram Gopal Sharma proposed a vote of thanks. | New Delhi |
| 2 December 2002 | H.E. Mr. Petru Petra, Ambassador, Embassy of Romania in India, released Sach Leta Hai Aakar, Hindi translation of contemporary Romanian poetry by Ranjit Saha in a programme held in collaboration with Embassy of Romania. It was followed by the presentation of poems from the book. | New Delhi |
| 30 June 2002 | A monograph on Sediyapu Krishna Bhatta was released | Ujire (Karnataka) |
| 25 May 2002 | Kannada translation entitled Dakshina Kaamaroopada Ondu Kathanaka of Indira Goswami's A Saga of South Kamarup was released by Smt Rama Devi, Hon'ble Governor of Karnataka. | Bangalore |
| 15 May 2002 | Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai by Dr. N. Velusamy and Vai. Mu. Kothainayaki Ammal by Dr. Prema were released by Dr. K. Kalimuthu, Hon'ble speaker, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Sri C. Ponnaiyan, Hon'ble Minister for Finance, Tamil Nadu, Sri P. C. Ramasamy, Hon'ble Minister for Hindu Religious Endowments, Tamil Nadu and Sri S. Semmalai, Hon'ble Minister for Health, Tamil Nadu, spoke on the occasion along with Dr. N. Velusamy and Dr. Prema. | Chennai |
| 26 April 2002 | Falnichya Kavita (Marathi) by Niranjan Uzgare was released at a special function. | Mumbai |
| 18 March 2002 | Smt Vidyaben Shah released the book Women Pioneers in India's Renaissance at a special function organised in collaboration with the National Book Trust. | New Delhi |
| 27 February 2002 | Six books in Oriya were released at a special function. | Bhubaneswar |
| 22 January 2002 | Sri Ashok Vajpeyi, eminent Hindi writer and Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, released the La fiesta de los dioses by Mauricio Bergstein, eminent Uruguayan travel writer. The function followed by an interaction with the author and was in collaboration with the Embassy of Uruguay and Centre of Spanish Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. | New Delhi |
| 13 November 2002 | Inaugural release of eight books brought out by the Translation Centre, Bangalore by Prof. N. Gopi, Vice-Chancellor, Telugu University, and Dr. G.S. Shivarudrappa, Convener, Kannada Advisory Board. Sri Ramakanta Rath, President, Sahitya Akademi, presided over the function. It was followed by a Kathakali presentation by Margi troupe, Thiruvananthapuram. | Bangalore |
| 1 November 2001 | Sri Bhisham Sahni, eminent Hindi writer, released Bharatiya Saundarya-Bodh aur Tulsidas by (late) Ram Vilas Sharma, eminent Hindi critic and Fellow of the Akademi. Prof. Namvar Singh, Dr. (Smt.) Kapila Vatsyayan, Sri Bhagwan Singh, Prof. Nityanand Tewari, Sri Manager Pandey and Sri Vijay Mohan Sharma spoke on this occasion. A Photo-cum-Fascimile Exhibition was also organised alongwith screening of documentary films on Ram Vilas Sharma. | New Delhi |
| February 2000 to March 2001 | Books worth Rs.150.90 lakhs (approx.) were sold during the period. | |
| February 2000 to March 2001 | The Akademi published 329 books (Assamese 6, Bengali 22, Dogri 1, English 44, Gujarati 10, Hindi 64, Kannada 29, Kashmiri 6, Konkani 3, Maithili 5, Malayalam 12, Manipuri 3, Marathi 6, Nepali 4, Oriya 18, Punjabi 6, Rajasthani 8, Sanskrit 3, Sindhi 1, Tamil 51 Telugu 14, Urdu 6 and 7 books in unrecognised languages). | |
| 8 March 2001 | Monograph on N.N. Kakkad released. | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 7 February 2001 | English translation of Indian Poetics done by Prof. N. Balasubramanya of the Kannada book Bharateeya Kavya Meemanse by T.N. Srikantaiah was released by Dr. Giraddi Govindaraja, President of Karnataka Sahitya Akademi in a programme organised in collaboration with Dr.G.S.S. Vishwastha Mandali. | Bangalore |
| 23 October 2000 | Three Monographs on Telugu writers - Suravaram Pratapa Reddy, Rachakonda Viswanatha Shastri and Tummula Sethuramamurthy - were released which was followed by lectures delivered on Parva (novel based on the Mahabharata) by Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, and on Ramayana by Dr. Venkatashiviah, in collaboration with the Siddhartha Kalapeetham | Vijayawada |
| 15 October 2000 | Monograph on N.V. Krishna Warrior in English was released in a function organised in collaboration with N.V. Smaraka Trust | Thirur |
| 6 October 2000 | Kannada translation of two award-winning books, one from Malayalam (M. Mukundan's Daivathinte Vikvithikal) and other from (Bhai Vir Singh's) Mere Saiyon Jio, were released in a function organised in collanboration with Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshodhana Kendra | Udupi |
| 24 August 2000 | Telugu translation of V.S Khandekar's Marathi classic Yayati was released by Sri P.V. Narasimha Rao, eminent scholar-statesman | New Delhi |
| 4 August 2000 | Four books on folk literature brought out by the Sahitya Akademi Project for Tribal and Oral Literature were released | New Delhi |
| 19 July 2000 | A Handful of Sun, English translation of Padma Sachdeva's poems released by Dr. Karan Singh | New Delhi |
| 21 June 2000 | A Special Millennial publication of the Akademi : Modern Indian Drama : An Anthology, edited by G.P. Deshpande was released | New Delhi |
| 28 June 2000 | Swatantra Geethangal (Poetry of Freedom Struggle) edited by Vishnu Narayan Nambudiri | Trichur |
| 9 February 2000 | When Poetry
Comes, a selection of poems by contemporary Bengali women poets
in English translation edited and translated by Dr. Marian Moddern
was released by Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay followed by a session
of Poetry Reading. Sri Nirendranath Chakravorty presided |
Calcutta |
| 26 December 1999 | Sane Guruji Punarmalunkan released by Joseph Macwan at Sane Guruji Birth Centenary closing function | Mumbai |
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