Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
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| Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | ||
| Award Information | ||
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| Category | Literature (Individual) | |
| Instituted | 1968 | |
| First Awarded | 1968 | |
| Last Awarded | 2007 | |
| Awarded by | Sahitya Akademi, Government of India | |
| Description | Literary award in India |
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| First Awardee(s) | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | |
| Last Awardee(s) | Anita Desai, Ravindra Kalelkar, Kartar Singh Duggal |
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The 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,[1] it is the highest literary honour conferred by the Government of India. [2] 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.
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[edit] List of Fellows
(Year - Name )
[edit] 1968
1. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (1898-1975), philosopher and statesman.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 1975
20. Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaran (1899-1980), Dravidian linguist.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 1985
26. Prof. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908-1999)
27. Prof. Umashankar Joshi (1911-1988)
28. Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth (1902-1997)
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 1996
44. Sri Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916-2004), Oriya short story writer and poet.[3]
45. Ms. Krishna Sobti (1925), Hindi writer.[4]
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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 2000
57. Prof. R. N. Dandekar (1909-2001)
58. Prof. Rahman Rahi (1925)
[edit] 2001
59. Prof. Ramnath Shastri (1914)
[edit] 2002[5]
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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 2005[6]
69. Nirmal Verma (1929-2005), Hindi writer and novelist.
70. Kovilan (Vattamparampil Velappan Ayyappan) (1923), Malayalam novelist.
[edit] 2006
71. Sri Vishnu Prabhakar (1912), Hindi writer.
72. Prof. Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer.
[edit] 2007[7]
73. Prof. Anita Desai, English novelist.
74. Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani writer.[8]
75. Kartar Singh Duggal, Punjabi writer.
[edit] List of Honorary Fellows
[edit] 1974
1. Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2002), Senegalese poet, cultural theorist, and statesman.
[edit] 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.[9]
[edit] 2002
6. Dr. Vassilis Vitsaxis (1920)
7. Prof. E. P. Chelyshev (1921)
[edit] 2007
8. Prof. R. E. Asher
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Sahitya Academi Fellowships
- ^ Report from The Hindu, January 2007.: the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
- ^ Also spelled Sachi Raut-Roy, Sachi Raut-Ray, Sachi Rautroy.
- ^ Krishna Sobti, 1925-
- ^ Bhisham Sahni, Kaifi Azmi in Sahitya Akademi
- ^ Nirmal Verma, Kovilan elected Sahitya Akademi Fellows
- ^ Anita Desai among Sahitya Akademi Fellows
- ^ Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for Kalelkar
- ^ Ji Xianlin, A Gentle Academic Giant.
[edit] External links
Official Site for Sahitya Akademi Award
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