Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Awards in 24 languages. The awards will be presented at a special function to be held on the 29th January next year at New Delhi during the Festival of Letters to be organised by Sahitya Akademi.
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The Sahitya Akademi award is among the most prestigious literary honours bestowed on writers for their works across genres in one of the 24 major Indian languages recognized by it.
It is annually conferred by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
The awards relate to books first published during the five years immediately preceding the year of award, between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2016.
The awards, in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cheque of Rs 1 lakh, will be presented to the authors at a special function in January next year.
2018 awardees:
Seven books of poetry, six novels, six short stories, three of literary criticism and two of essays have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2018.
Those who have won the award for their collection of poetry include Sananta Tanti in Assamese, Paresh Narendra Kamat in Konkani, S Ramesan Nair in Malayalam and Dr Rama Kant Shukla in Sanskrit.
Writers who won the awards for short stories include Sanjib Chattopadhyay in Bengali, Mushtaq Ahmed Mushtaq in Kashmiri and Prof Bina Thakur in Maithili.
Inderjeet Kesar in Dogri, Anees Salim in English and Chitra Mudgal in Hindi are among the awardees in the novel category.
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