Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of

Indian literature Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognised languages. The earliest works of Indian literature were o ...

and

Kannada literature Kannada literature is the Text corpus, corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian language, Dravidian Language family, family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. A ...

in particular.Kannada Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007
Sahitya Akademi Official website. No Awards were conferred in 1957 and 1963.

Sahitya Akademi Award recipients

Key

Bhasha Samman awardees

Akademi Translation Prize winners

Yuva Puraskara winners

Bala Sahitya Puraskara winners

References

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