SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD 2018

About:

• 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.