Ananda Purashkar

Ananda Purashkar

The "Ananda Purashkar" ( _bn. আনন্দ পুরস্কার) (literally Ananda Award) is a prestigious award for Bengali literature awarded annually by Ananda Publishers to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India. Some of the recipients are mentioned below. Ananda Purashkar was awarded to Bangla Academy, Bangladesh in 1993 which Bangla Academy declined to accept.

Awardees

*1961 – Syed Mujtaba Ali
*1966- Sukumar Sen
*1968 - Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya
*1973 - Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
*1976 – Buddhadeb Guha – "Halud Basanta" (novel)
*1981 – Sanjib Chattopadhyay
*1982 – Samaresh Majumdar
*1983 – Annada Shankar Ray
*1984 – Subhas Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Palit, Sukumar Sen
*1986 – Sunil Gangopadhyay
*1988 – Abul Bashar
*1989 – Jay Goswami – "Ghumiechho, Jhaupata?" (poetry)
*1990 - Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
*1991 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay
*1992 – Taslima Nasrin – "Nirbachito Column" (articles)
*1993 - Bangla Academy, Bangladesh : Bangla Academy declined to accept the award.
*1994 – Annada Shankar Ray
*1995 – Debarati Mitra
*1996 – Akhtaruzzaman Elias – "Khwabnama" (novel)
*1997 – Bani Basu – "Maitreya Jatak" (novel)
*2000 – Taslima Nasrin – "Amar Meyebela" (memoirs)
*2005 – Mihir Sengupta – "Bishad Briksha"
*2007 – Dhritikanta Lahiri Chaudhuri - "Hatir Boi" (on elephants)
*2008 - Hassan Azizul Haq - "Agunpakhi" (novel)

ee also

*Rabindra Puraskar
*Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers


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