SAHITYA AKADEMI FELLOWSHIP

About:

• The election of Narayana Rao has been made based on his contribution to the Telugu literature.
  
  
• His publications include Girls for Sale: Kanyashulkam and A play from Colonial India.
  
  

Do you know?

• The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
  
  
• It is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a living writer, the number of fellows at no time exceeding 21.
  
  
• Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit, the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature."
  
  
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first writer elected to the Fellowship; Mulk Raj Anand was the first Indian English writer to be inducted in 1989.