Sahitya Akademi Awards 2023

• Twenty four writers received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2023.
• The awards were given for literary works including nine books of poetry, six novels, five of short stories, three essays, and one literary study.
• The awards are selected on the basis of unanimous selections made by the jurors or the selection made on the basis of a majority vote.
• The awards relate to books first published during the five years immediately preceding the year of the award, i.e. between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2021.
• The authors and poets received the award in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper plaque, a shawl and an amount of ₹1 lakh. 

WINNERS

ABOUT SAHITYA AKADEMI

• The Sahitya Akademi was formally inaugurated by the Government of India on 12 March 1954.
• It works as an autonomous body under the Union Culture Ministry and is dedicated to promoting literature in Indian languages.
• It was registered as a society in 1956 under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.
• It is the central institution for literary dialogue, publication and promotion in the country.
• Besides the 22 languages enumerated in the 8^th schedule of Constitution of India, the Akademi has recognised English and Rajasthani as languages in which its programme may be implemented.