Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award:
What is the Sahitya Akademi Award called?
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor given by the Sahitya Akademi in India. The Sahitya Akademi awards every year the best literary work published in each of the major languages of India recognized by it. Apart from the 22 Indian languages included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution of India, it is provided in a total of 24 languages, including Rajasthani and English. The Sahitya Akademi Awards were given for the first time in 1955.
Quick Info About Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award:
| Award Class | Literature |
| Establishment Year | 1955 |
| Prize Money | one lakh rupees |
| 1st winner | Makhanlal Chaturvedi |
| Last Winner | Bhagwant Anmol (2022) |
Amount to be received in Sahitya Akademi Award:
In the Sahitya Akademi Award, the winners are given a cash amount of one lakh rupees and a copper plate in the present normal. At the time of inception of the award, the prize money was Rs.5,000/-, which was increased to Rs.10,000/- in 1983 and increased to Rs.25,000/- in 1988. From the year 2001 this amount was increased to Rs.40,000/- and after that in the year 2003 this amount was increased to Rs.50,000/-. After this, the government had increased the amount of the award from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh in the year 2009.
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022:
In the announcement of the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, this year Hindi writer Bhagwant Anmol has been selected for his novel 'Prameya'.
List of Hindi Sahitya Akademi Awardees since 1955 till date:
| Year | Author name | Composition |
| 2022 | Lord Anmol | Theorem (Novel) |
| 2021 | Daya Prakash Singha | Emperor Ashoka (play) |
| 2020 | Kumar Vijay Shukla | Rukhai from life (poem) |
| 2019 | ring finger | Digant in the basket (poem) |
| 2019 | Nand Kishore Acharya | Peeling Yourself (Poem) |
| 2018 | Chitra Mudgal | Nala Sopara Post Box No. 203 (novel) |
| 2017 | Ramesh Kuntal Megh | Vishwamithaksaritsagara (Book) |
| 2016 | Nasira Sharma | Parijat (Novel) |
| 2015 | Ramdarsh Mishra | Laughter of Fire (Poetry Collection) |
| 2014 | Rameshchandra Shah | Vinayak (Novel) |
| 2013 | Mridula Garg | Miljul Man (Novel) |
| 2012 | Chandrakant Deotale | Throwing Stones (Poetry Collection) |
| 2011 | Kashinath Singh | Raghu on Rehan (novel) |
| 2010 | Uday Prakash | Mohan Das (short novel) |
| 2009 | Kailash Vajpayee | Sign in the Wind (anthology) |
| 2008 | Govind Mishra | Color Captured in the Fog (Novel) |
| 2007 | Amarkant | With These Weapons (Novel) |
| 2006 | Gyanendrapati | Sanshayatma (a collection of poems) |
| 2005 | Manohar Shyam Joshi | Kyap (Novel) |
| 2004 | Viren Dangwal | The Creator in the Vicious Circle (Anthology) |
| 2003 | Kamleshwar | Kitne Pakistan (Novel) |
| 2002 | Rajesh Joshi | Between Two Lines (Poetry) |
| 2001 | Alka Saraogi | Kali-Katha: Via Bypass (Novel) |
| 2000 | Manglesh Dabral | What We See (Poems) |
| 1999 | Vinod Kumar Shukla | There Lived a Window in the Wall (Novel) |
| 1998 | Arun Kamal | In New Territories (Poetry Collection) |
| 1997 | Liladhar Jagudi | The Moon in the Sky of Experience (Poetry Collection) |
| 1996 | Surendra Verma | I want the moon (novel) |
| 1995 | Kunwar Narayan | No One Else (Anthology) |
| 1994 | Ashok Vajpayee | Nowhere There (poetry collection) |
| 1993 | Vishnu Prabhakar | Ardhanarishwara (Novel) |
| 1992 | Giriraj Kishore | Two and a Half Houses (Novel) |
| 1991 | Girijakumar Mathur | I am in front of time (collection of poems) |
| 1990 | Shivprasad Singh | Blue Moon (Novel) |
| 1989 | Kedarnath Singh | Stork in Famine (poetry collection) |
| 1988 | Naresh Mehta | Aranya (a collection of poems) |
| 1987 | Srikant Verma (posthumously) | Magadha (a collection of poems) |
| 1986 | Kedarnath Agrawal | Apoorva (a collection of poems) |
| 1985 | Nirmal Verma | Kavve and Kala Pani (a collection of short stories) |
| 1984 | Raghuveer Sahai | People Have Forgotten (Anthology) |
| 1983 | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena | The Hanged People (poetry collection) |
| 1982 | Harishankar Parsai | Age of handicapped reverence (sarcasm) |
| 1981 | Trilochan | Tap Ke Taye Hue Din (Poetry Collection) |
| 1980 | Krishna Sobti | Zindaginama – Zindagi Rukh (Novel) |
| 1979 | Obscured (posthumously) | Listen to me tomorrow (poetry collection) |
| 1978 | Bharat Bhushan Agarwal | So much as the sun (poetry collection) |
| 1977 | Shamsher Bahadur Singh | I haven't even paid (poem collection) |
| 1976 | Yashpal | Meri Teri Uski Baat (Novel) |
| 1975 | Bhishma Sahni | Tamas (Novel) |
| 1974 | Shivmangal Singh 'Suman' | Mitti Ki Baaraat (a collection of poems) |
| 1973 | Hazariprasad Dwivedi | Alok Parv (Essay Collection) |
| 1972 | Bhawaniprasad Mishra | The Woven Rope (a collection of poems) |
| 1971 | Namvar Singh | New Paradigms of Poetry (Criticism) |
| 1970 | Ram Vilas Sharma | Sahitya Sadhna (biography) of Nirala |
| 1969 | Shri Lal Shukla | Ragdarbari (Novel) |
| 1968 | Harivansh Rai 'Bachchan' | The Two Rocks |
| 1967 | Amritlal Nagar | Nectar and Poison (Novel) |
| 1966 | Jainendra Kumar | Muktibodh (Novel) |
| 1965 | Nagendra | Rasa-Siddhanta (Poetry) |
| 1964 | agnostic | The Door Across the Courtyard (Poetry Collection) |
| 1963 | Amrit Rai | Premchand: The Soldier of the Pen (Biography) |
| 1961 | Bhagavathikaran Verma | The Forgotten Pictures (Novel) |
| 1960 | Sumitranandan Pant | Art and the Old Moon (Poetry Collection) |
| 1959 | Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' | The Four Chapters of Sanskriti (A Survey of Indian Culture) |
| 1958 | Rahul Sankrityayan | History (History) of Central Asia |
| 1957 | Acharya Narendra Dev (posthumously) | Buddha Dharma-Darshan (Philosophy) |
| 1956 | Vasudevsharan Agarwal | Padmavat: Sanjeevani Explanation (Commentary) |
| 1955 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi | Himtarangini (a collection of poems) |
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