Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award:
What is the Sahitya Akademi Award called?
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor given by the Sahitya Akademi in India. The Sahitya Akademi awards every year the best literary work published in each of the major languages of India recognized by it. Apart from the 22 Indian languages included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India, it is provided in a total of 24 languages, including Rajasthani and English. The Sahitya Akademi Awards were given for the first time in 1955.
Quick Info About Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award:
| Award Class | Literature |
| Establishment Year | 1955 |
| Prize Money | one lakh rupees |
| 1st winner | Makhanlal Chaturvedi |
| Last Winner | Badri Narayan (2022) |
Amount to be received in Sahitya Akademi Award:
In the Sahitya Akademi Award, the winners are given a cash amount of one lakh rupees and a copper plate in the present normal. At the time of inception of the award, the prize money was Rs.5,000/-, which was increased to Rs.10,000/- in 1983 and increased to Rs.25,000/- in 1988. From the year 2001 this amount was increased to Rs.40,000/- and after that in the year 2003 this amount was increased to Rs.50,000/-. After this, the government had increased the amount of the award from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh in the year 2009.
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022:
In the announcement of the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, this year Hindi writer Badri Narayan has been selected for his Poetry 'Tumadi Ke Shabd'.
List of Hindi Sahitya Akademi Awardees since 1955 till date:
| Year | Author's name | Book |
| 2022 | Badri Narayan | Tumadi Ke Shabd (Poetry) |
| 2021 | Daya Prakash Sinha | Samrat Ashok (Play) |
| 2020 | Anamika | Tokri Mein Digant ‘Their Gatha’ : 2014 (Poetry) |
| 2019 | Nand Kishore Acharya | Chheelate Hue Apne Ko (Poetry) |
| 2018 | Chitra Mudgal | Post Box No. 203-Naala Sopara (Novel) |
| 2017 | Ramesh Kuntal Megh | Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar (Literary Criticism) |
| 2016 | Nasira Sharma | Paarijat (Novel) |
| 2015 | Ramdarash Mishra | Aag Ki Hansi (Poetry) |
| 2014 | Ramesh Chandra Shah | Vinayak (Novel) |
| 2013 | Mridula Garg | Miljul Man (Novel) |
| 2012 | Chandrakant Devtale | Patthar Fenk Raha Hoon (Poetry) |
| 2011 | Kashinath Singh | Rehan Per Raghu (Novel) |
| 2010 | Uday Prakash | Mohan Das (Short Story) |
| 2009 | Kailash Vajpeyi | Hawa Main Hasthakshar (Poetry) |
| 2008 | Govind Mishra | Kohre Mein Kaid Rang (Novel) |
| 2007 | Amar Kant | Inhin Hathiyaron Se (Novel) |
| 2006 | Gyanendrapati | Sanshyatma (Poetry) |
| 2005 | Manohar Shyam Joshi | Kyaap (Novel) |
| 2004 | Viren Dangwal | Dushchakra Mein Srista (Poetry) |
| 2003 | Kamleshwar | Kitne Pakistan (Novel) |
| 2002 | Rajesh Joshi | Do Panktiyon Ke Beech (Poetry) |
| 2001 | Alka Saraogi | Kali-Katha : Via Bypass (Novel) |
| 2000 | Manglesh Dabral | Hum Jo Dekhte Hain (Poetry) |
| 1999 | Vinod Kumar Shukla | Deewar Main Ek Khirkee Rahathi Thi (Novel) |
| 1998 | Arun Kamal | Naye Ilake Mein (Poetry) |
| 1997 | Leeladhar Jagoori | Anubhav Ke Aakash Mein Chand (Poetry) |
| 1996 | Surendra Verma | Mujhe Chand Chahiye (Novel) |
| 1995 | Kunwar Narain | Koi Doosra Nahin (Poetry) |
| 1994 | Ashok Vajpeyi | Kahin Nahin Wahin (Poetry) |
| 1993 | Vishnu Prabhakar | Ardhanarishwar (Novel) |
| 1992 | Giriraj Kishore | Dhai Ghar (Novel) |
| 1991 | Girija Kumar Mathur | Main Vaqt Ke Hun Samne (Poetry) |
| 1990 | Shiv Prasad Singh | Neela Chand (Novel) |
| 1989 | Kedarnath Singh | Akaal Mein Saras (Poetry) |
| 1988 | Naresh Mehta | Aranya (Poetry) |
| 1987 | Shrikant Verma | Magadh (Poetry) |
| 1986 | Kedarnath Aggarwal | Apurva (Poetry) |
| 1985 | Nirmal Varma | Kavve aur Kala Pani (Short stories) |
| 1984 | Raghuvir Sahai | Log Bhool Gaye Hain (Poetry) |
| 1983 | *Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena | Khutiyon Par Tange Log (Poetry) |
| 1982 | Harishankar Parsai | Viklang Shraddha Ka Daur (Satire) |
| 1981 | Trilochan | Tap Ke Taye Hue Din (Novel) |
| 1980 | Krishna Sobti | Zindaginama-Zinda Rukh (Novel) |
| 1979 | *Dhoomil | Kal Sunana Mujhe (Poetry) |
| 1978 | *Bharat Bhushan Agarwal | Utna Vah Suraj Hai (Poetry) |
| 1977 | Shamsher Bahadur Singh | Chuka Bhi Hun Nahin Main (Poetry) |
| 1976 | Yashpal | Meri Teri Uski Baat (Novel) |
| 1975 | Bhisham Sahni | Tamas (Novel) |
| 1974 | Shiv Mangal Singh ‘Suman’ | Mitti Ki Baraat (Poetry) |
| 1973 | Hazari Prasad Dwivedi | Alok Parva (Essays) |
| 1972 | Bhawani Prasad Mishra | Buni Huyi Rassi (Poetry) |
| 1971 | Namwar Singh | Kavita Ke Naye Pratiman (Literary criticism) |
| 1970 | Ram Vilas Sharma | Nirala Ki Sahitya Sadhana (Biography) |
| 1969 | Shrilal Shukla | Rag Darbari (Novel) |
| 1968 | Harivansh Rai Bachchan | Do Chattanen (Poetry) |
| 1967 | Amritlal Nagar | Amrit Aur Vish (Novel) |
| 1966 | Jainendra Kumar | Muktibodh (Novelette) |
| 1965 | Nagendra | Rasa Siddhanta (Treatise on poetics) |
| 1964 | ‘Agyeya’ (S.H. Vatsyayan) | Aangan Ke Par Dvar (Poetry) |
| 1963 | Amrit Rai | Premchand: Kalam Ka Sipahi (Biography) |
| 1961 | Bhagwaticharan Verma | Bhoole Bisre Chitra (Novel) |
| 1960 | Sumitranandan Pant | Kala aur Burha Chand (Poetry) |
| 1959 | ‘Dinkar’(Ramdhari Sinha) | Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyaya (A survey of Indian culture) |
| 1958 | Rahul Sankrityayan | Madhya Asia Ka Itihas (History) |
| 1957 | *Acharya Narendra Dev | Bauddha Dharma-Darshan (Philosophy) |
| 1956 | Vasudevasaran Agrawala | Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya (Commentary) |
| 1955 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi | Him-Tarangini (Poetry) |
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Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award FAQs:
Ramesh Kuntal Megh is a senior litterateur and critic of Hindi literature. He expanded the field of progressive criticism. Megh has given special importance to interdiscipline in criticism. Vishwamithaksaritsagar is his important work, on which he also received the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sanshyatma is a poetry collection composed by noted Hindi litterateur Gyanendrapati, for which he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006.
On the establishment of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1954, Makhanlal Chaturvedi was awarded the first award for Hindi literature to Dada for 'Himtarangini'.
Vasudev Sharan Agarwal was a scholar of history, culture, art and literature of India. He is a Hindi prose writer awarded by Sahitya Akademi. Chaturvedi was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955.
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India awarded annually by the Sahitya Akademi to the best literary work published in each of the major languages it recognizes in India.