• 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

 

Poetry   Vijay Verma (Dogri)   Vinod Joshi (Gujarati)   Manshoor Banihali (Kashmiri)   Sorokkhaibam Gambhini (Manipuri)   Ashutosh Parida (Odia)   Swarnjit Savi (Punjabi)   Gaje Singh Rajpurohit (Rajasthani)   Arun Ranjan Mishra (Sanskrit)   Vinod Asudani (Sindhi)	Novel   Swapnamay Chakrabarti (Bengali)   Neelum Saran Gour (English)   Sanjeev (Hindi)   Krushnat Khot (Marathi)   Rajasekaran (Devibharathi) (Tamil)   Sadiqua Nawab Saher (Urdu)	Short Stories   Pranavjyoti Deka (Assamese)   Nandeswar Daimari (Bodo)   Prakash S. Parienkar (Konkani)   Taraceen Baskey (Turia Chand Baskey) (Santali)   T. Patanjali Sastry (Telugu)
Essays   Lakshmisha Tolpadi (Kannada)   Basukinath Jha (Maithili)   Judhabir Rana (Nepali)	Literary Study   E.V. Ramakrishnan (Malayalam)

 

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.