Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

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awardname = Sahitya Akademi Fellowship


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category = Literature (Individual)
instituted = 1968
firstawarded = 1968
lastawarded = 2007
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awardedby = Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
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description = Literary award in India
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firstawardees = Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
lastawardees = Anita Desai, Ravindra Kalelkar, Kartar Singh Duggal
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website= http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India. Awarded by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, to the "immortals of literature," and limited to twenty one individuals at any given time, [ [http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02 Sahitya Academi Fellowships] ] it is the highest literary honour conferred by the Government of India. [ [http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/26/stories/2007012615980300.htm Report from "The Hindu, January 2007."] : the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."] The fellowship was established in 1968 and the first elected fellow was the philosopher and statesman, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In addition to the twenty one fellowships, a handful of honorary fellowships have been awarded to international scholars of Indian literature.

List of Fellows

(Year - Name )

1968

1. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1898-1975), philosopher and statesman.

1969

2. Sri C. Rajagopalachari (1879-1972), statesman, Tamil writer and translator.

3. Sri Tarasankar Bandyopadhyaya (1898-1971), Bengali novelist.

4. Sri Sumitranandan Pant (1900-1977), Hindi poet.

5. Sri Dr. D. R. Bendre (1896-1981), Kannada poet.

1970

6. Dr. Viswanadha Satyanarayana (1895-1976), Telugu poet.

7. Sri Raghupati Sahay `Firaq Gorakhpuri' (1896-1982), Urdu poet.

8. Sri Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1910-1994), Malayalam novelist and short-story writer.

9. Sri Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1898-1976), Marathi novelist.

1971

10. Mm. Gopinath Kaviraj (1877-1976), Sanskrit scholar and philosopher.

11. Sri D. B. Kakasaheb Kalelkar (1885-1981), Gujarati poet, travelogue writer, and essayist.

12. Sri Gurbaksh Singh Preet Lari (1895-1977), Punjabi novelist and short story writer.

13. Sri Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901-1991), Oriya poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist.

1973

14. Prof. M. U. Malkani (1896-1980), Sindhi writer.

15. Sri Nilamani Phukan (1879-1978)

16. Prof. Vasudev Sihnu Mirashi (1893-1985), Sanskrit scholar.

17. Prof. V. R. Trivedi (1899-1991)

18. Dr. Sukumar Sen (1900-1992), Bengali linguist.

19.. Dr. Masti Venkatesa Iyengar (1891-1986), Kannada writer.

1975

20. Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaran (1899-1980), Dravidian linguist.

1979

21. Sri A. R. Deshpande `Anil' (1901-1982), Marathi poet.

22. Sri Jainendra Kumar (1905-1988), Hindi novelist.

23. Dr. K. V. Puttappa `Kuvempu' (1904-1994), Kannada writer and poet.

241. Dr. V. Raghavan (1908-1979), Sanskrit scholar.

25. Susri Mahadevi Verma (1907-1987), Hindi poet.

1985

26. Prof. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908-1999)

27. Prof. Umashankar Joshi (1911-1988)

28. Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (1902-1997), Kannada writer

1989

29. Sri Tarkateertha Laxmanshastri Joshi (1901-1994), Sanskrit and Marathi scholar.

30. Sri Annada Shankar Ray(1904-2002), Bengali poet and essayist.

31. Dr. Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004), English novelist.

32. Prof. Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1909-1992), Kannada writer and scholar.

33. Sri Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912-1999), Malayalam novelist and short story writer.

34. Sri Amritlal Nagar (1916-1990), Hindi writer.

1994

35. Smt. Ashapurna Devi (1909-1995), Bengali novelist and poet.

36. Sri R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), English novelist.

37. Dr. P. T. Narasimhachar (1905-1998), Kannada poet.

38. Smt. N. Balamani Amma (1909-2004), Malayalam poet.

39. Dr. V. B. Kolte (1908-1998), Marathi scholar.

40. Ms. Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Urdu novelist and short story writer.

41. Sri Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1906-1994), Oriya novelist.

42. Dr. Harbhajan Singh (1919-2002), Punjabi poet.

43. Sri Nagarjun (1911-1998), Hindi and Maithili poet.

1996

44. Sri Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916-2004), Oriya short story writer and poet. [Also spelled Sachi Raut-Roy, Sachi Raut-Ray, Sachi Rautroy.]

45. Ms. Krishna Sobti (1925), Hindi writer. [ [http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/krishnasobti.html Krishna Sobti, 1925-] ]

46. Prof. Vidya Niwas Mishra (1926-2005), Hindi and Sanskrit scholar.

47. Sri Vinda Karandikar (1918), Marathi poet.

48. Sri Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919-2003), Bengali poet.

49 Sri D. Jayakanthan (1934), Tamil writer, essayist, and critic.

50. Sri Raja Rao (1908), English novelist.

1999

51. Sri Ram Vilas Sharma (1912-2000)

52. Sri Rajendra Shah (1913)

53. Sri Gunturu Seshendra Sharma (1927)

54. Sri Syed Abdul Malik (1919-2000)

55. Pandit N. Khelchandra Singh (1920)

56. Sri K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1915-2003), Kannada poet

2000

57. Prof. R. N. Dandekar (1909-2001)

58. Prof. Rahman Rahi (1925)

2001

59. Prof. Ramnath Shastri (1914)

2002 [ [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020220/nation.htm#8 Bhisham Sahni, Kaifi Azmi in Sahitya Akademi] ]

60. Sri Kaifi Azmi (1925 - 2002), Urdu poet.

61. Sri Nilamani Phookan (1933), Assamese poet.

62. Sri Bhisham Sahni (1915-2003), Hindi fiction writer.

63. Sri Govind Chandra Pandey (1923)

2004

64. Professor U. R. Anantha Murthy (1932)

65. Smt. Amrita Pritam (1919-2005)

66. Sri Sankha Ghosh (1932)

67. Sri Vijaydan Detha (1926)

68. Professor Bh. Krishnamurthi (1928)

2005 [ [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/02/17/stories/2005021704391300.htm Nirmal Verma, Kovilan elected Sahitya Akademi Fellows] ]

69. Nirmal Verma (1929-2005), Hindi writer and novelist.

70. Kovilan (Vattamparampil Velappan Ayyappan) (1923), Malayalam novelist.

2006

71. Sri Vishnu Prabhakar (1912), Hindi writer.

72. Prof. Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer.

2007 [ [http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/23/stories/2007022301222200.htm Anita Desai among Sahitya Akademi Fellows] ]

73. Prof. Anita Desai, English novelist.

74. Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani writer. [ [http://gsbkonkani.blogspot.com/2007/10/sahitya-akademi-fellowship-for-kelekar.html Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for Kalelkar] ]

75. Kartar Singh Duggal, Punjabi writer.

List of Honorary Fellows

1974

1. Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2002), Senegalese poet, cultural theorist, and statesman.

1996

2. Prof. Edward C. Dimock, Jr. (1929-2001), Bengali scholar.

3. Prof. Daniel H. H. Ingalls (1916), Sanskrit scholar.

4. Prof. Kamil V. Zvelebil (1927), scholar of Dravidian linguistics.

5. Prof. Ji Xianlin (1911), Sanskrit scholar and translator. [ [http://www.china.org.cn/english/NM-e/139052.htm Ji Xianlin, A Gentle Academic Giant] .]

2002

6. Dr. Vassilis Vitsaxis (1920)

7. Prof. E. P. Chelyshev (1921)

2007

8. Prof. R. E. Asher

ee also

* Sahitya Akademi
* Sahitya Akademi Award
* Jnanpith Award

References

External links

* [http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa1.htm Official Site for Sahitya Akademi Award]