The

Sahitya Akademi Award 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 22 languages of the ...

is given by the

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

, India's national academy of letters, to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it, as well as for translations. No awards were given in 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1968.

Sahitya Akademi Award winners

The following is a List of winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award for writings in the

Odia language Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is als ...

Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Winners

The following is a List of winners of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar:

Akademi Yuva Puraskar Winners

The following is a List of winners of the Akademi Yuva Puraskar:

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Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...

* Odia-language literary awards

Sahitya Akademi Award winners

Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Winners

Akademi Yuva Puraskar Winners

See also

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