Complete Winners List of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2018

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Sahitya Akademi Awards 2018 Winners

India's National Academy of Letters, Sahitya Akademi has announced the names of prestigious annual Sahitya Akademi Awards for litterateurs 2018 in 24 languages. 7 Books of Poetry, 6 of Short Stories, 3 of Literary Criticism and 2 of Essays have won this years Sahitya Akademi Awards 2018.

The Awards were recommended by distinguished Jury members representing 24 Indian languages and approved by the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi which met today under the Chairmanship of Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar, President, Sahitya Akademi.

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 at Kamani Auditorium. The Sahitya Akademi award is among the most prestigious literary honours bestowed on writers for their works across genres and languages.

Winners in Poetry Section :

• Samanta Tanti (Assamese)
• Paresh Narendra Kamat (Konkani)
• S Ramesan Nair (Malayalam)
• Dr Mohanjit (Punjabi)
• Dr Rakesh Kumar Vyas (Rajasthani)
• Dr Rama Kant Shukla (Sanskrit) 
• Khiman U Mulani (Sindhi) 

Winners in Novels Section :

• Inderjeet Kesar (Dogri)
• Anees Salim (English)
• Chitra Mudgal (Hindi)
• Shyam Besra (Santali)
• S Ramakrishnan (Tamil) 
• Rahman Abbas (Urdu)

Winners in Shortstories Section :

• Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Bengali)
• Rituraj Basumatary (Bodo)
• Mushtaq Ahmad Mushtaq (Kashmiri)
• Prof. Bina Thakur (Maithili)
• Bidhichandra Heisnamba (Manipuri)
• Lok Nath Upadhyay Chapagain (Nepali)

Winners in Literary Criticism Section

• K. G. Nagarajappa (Kannada)
• Ma. Su. Patil (Marathi)
• Dasarathi Das (Odia)

Winners in Essays Section

• Sharifa Vijliwala (Gujarati)
• Dr. Kolakaluri Enoch (Telugu)

The Akademi also announced its Bhasha Salman for the year 2017 and 2018.

Winners of Bhasha Samman 2017-18

• Yogendra Nath Sharma - North zone
• G Venkatasubbiah - South zone
• Gagendra Nath Das - Eastern zone
• Shailaja Bapat - Western zone

Download PDF Version of Sahitya Akademi Awards Winners List 2018 from HERE

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