Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024 – Final Notes
1. Key Highlights
- Awarding Body: Sahitya Akademi
- Year of Award: 2024
- Total Awardees: 21 writers & poets
- Eligible Publication Period: 1 January 2018 – 31 December 2022
- Announcement Authority: Madhav Kaushik, President, Sahitya Akademi
- Award Components: Plaque, Shawl, ₹1 lakh cash prize
- Award Ceremony Date: 8 March 2025
2. Languages Announced Later (Early 2025)
- Bengali: Sutapa Chakraborty – Poetry
- Dogri: Late Chaman Arora – Ik Hor Ashwthama (Short Stories)
- Urdu: Prof. Ateequllah – Bain-Ul-Uloomi Tanqueed (Literary Criticism)
👉 With these, the total count reached 21 awards.
3. Category-wise Distribution (2024)
| Category | Number of Awards |
|---|
| Poetry | 8 |
| Novel | 3 |
| Short Stories | 2 |
| Essay | 3 |
| Literary Criticism | 3 |
| Play | 1 |
| Research | 1 |
| Total | 21 |
4. Category-wise Winners
A. Poetry Award Winners
| Language | Winner | Work |
|---|
| Hindi | Gagan Gill | Main Jab Tak Aai Bahar |
| Punjabi | Paul Kaur | Sun Gunvanta Sun Budhivanta: Itihaasnama Punjab |
| Malayalam | K. Jayakumar | — |
| Manipuri | Haobam Satyabati Devi | — |
| Gujarati | Dileep Jhaveri | — |
| Assamese | Sameer Tanti | — |
| Rajasthani | Mukut Maniraj | — |
| Sanskrit | Dipak Kumar Sharma | — |
| Bengali | Sutapa Chakraborty | — |
B. Novel Award Winners
| Language | Winner | Work |
|---|
| English | Easterine Kire | Spirit Nights |
| Kashmiri | Sohan Kaul | Psychiatric Ward |
| Bodo | Aron Raja | Swrni Thakhai |
C. Short Story Award Winners
| Language | Winner | Work |
|---|
| Nepali | Yuva Baral | Chhichimira |
| Sindhi | Hundraj Balwani | Purzo |
| Dogri | Late Chaman Arora | Ik Hor Ashwthama |
D. Essay Award Winners
| Language | Winner |
|---|
| Konkani | Mukesh Thali |
| Maithili | Mahendra Malangia |
| Odia | Baishnab Charan Samai |
E. Literary Criticism Award Winners
| Language | Winner |
|---|
| Kannada | K.V. Narayana |
| Marathi | Sudhir Rasal |
| Telugu | Penugonda Lakshminarayana |
| Urdu | Prof. Ateequllah |
F. Play
| Language | Winner | Work |
|---|
| Santali | Maheshwar Sorn | Seched Sawnta Ren Andha Manmi |
G. Research
| Language | Winner |
|---|
| Tamil | A.R. Venkatachalapathy |