List of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major Indian languages, i.e., English and the 22 listed languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution recognized by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

1. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Assamese) – Apurba Kumar Saikia (short stories, Bengsata)
2. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Bengali) – Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay (Memoirs, Eka Eka Ekashi)
3. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Bodo) – Late. Dharanidhar Owari (short stories, Gwthenay Lamayao Gwdan Agan)
4. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Dogri) – Gian Singh (Play, Baba Jitmal)
5. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (English) – Arundhathi Subramaniam (Poetry, When God is a Traveller)
6. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Gujarati) – Harish Meenashru (Poetry, Banaras Diary)
7. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Hindi) – Anamika (poetry, Tokri Mein Digant “Their Gatha” : 2014)
8. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Kannada) – M. Veerappa Moily (Epic Poetry, Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijyam)
9. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Kashmiri) – Late. Hirday Kaul Bharti (Short Stories, Tilsam-e-Khanabadosh)
10. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Konkani) – R.S. Bhaskar (Poetry, Yugaparivarthanancho)
11. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Maithili) – Kamalkant Jha (Short Stories, Gachh Roosal Achhi)
12. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Manipuri) – Irungbam Deven (Poetry, Malangbana Kari Hai)
13. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Marathi) – Nanda Khare (Novel, Udya)
14. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Punjabi) – Gurdev Singh Rupana (Short Stories, Aam Khass)
15. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Sanskrit) – Mahesh Chandra Sharma Gautam (Novel, Vaishali)
16. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Santali) – Rupchand Hansdah (Poetry, Gur Dak Kasa Dak)
17. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Sindhi) – Jetho Lalwani (Plays, Jehad)
18. Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2020 (Tamil) – Imaiyam (Novel, Sellaatha Panam)
19. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Telugu) – Nikhileswar (Poetry, Agniswaasa (2015-2017))
20. Winner of Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 (Urdu) – Hussain-ul-Haque (Novel, Amawas Main Khwab)

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