Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award is an annual literary award given to literary works in

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Karnataka Sahitya Academy Karnataka Sahitya Academy is an autonomous organization set up by the government of Karnataka to promote Kannada literature and recognize literary merit by giving awards. It is fully funded by the Directorate of Kannada and Culture, Government of ...

. Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award is given to individual books published in various genres like poetry, novel, short fiction, criticism, travel writing, translation, children's writing etc., as well as for the complete contribution of a writer to Kannada literature. Instituted in 1983, it has been given to some of the most eminent writers in Kannada like P.Lankesh, U.R.Ananthamurthy, K.P.Poornachandra Tejaswi,

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Awards

Annual honorary award

Sahityashree Award

Book prizes

The following is a partial list of award winners and the name of the books for which they won.

Poetry

Novel

Short story

Play

Humour

Essay

Travelogue

Biography / Autobiography

Criticism

Children work

Science writing

Research

Translation (creative)

Translation (non-creative)

Debut work

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References

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Karnataka Sahitya Academy (Book) Award winners

Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award winners (Total contribution)
Indian literary awards