SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2016 PRESENTED TO 24 AUTHORS
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2016 were
conferred on twenty-four writers on 22 February 2017. The eminent authors were
conferred with the award/honour for writing in as different Indian languages.
The awards were conferred on them at
the annual Festival of Letters. The festival, which began 21 February 2017, will
continue till 26 February 2017. The distinguished physicist and Marathi writer
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was the chief guest of the award ceremony.
The awards were conferred in
different genres and they included poetry, essay, short story, novel, criticism
and play.
Awardees in different genres were
- Genre Poetry
- Jnan Pujari: Was awarded for book Meghmalar
Bhraman written in Assamese.
- Anju (Anjali
Narzary): Was awarded for book Ang Maboroi Dong Dasong written in
Bodo.
- Kamal Vora: Was awarded for book Anekek
written in Gujarati.
- Prabha Varma: Was awarded for book
Shyamamadhavan written in Malayalam.
- Sitanath
Acharya: Was
awarded for book Kavyanirjhari written in Sanskrit.
- Gobinda
Chandra Majhi:
Was awarded for book Nalha written in Santali.
- Nand Javeri: Was awarded for book Akhar
Katha written in Sindhi.
- Papineni
Sivasankar: Was
awarded for book Rajanigandha written in Telugu.
- Genre Short Story
- Chhatrapal: Was awarded for book Cheta
written in Dogri.
- Shyam
Darihare: Was
awarded for book Barki Kaki at Hotmail Dot Com written in Maithili.
- Moirangthem
Rajen: Was
awarded for book Cheptharaba Eshingpun written in Manipuri.
- Asaram Lomate:
Was awarded
for book Aalok written in Marathi.
- Paramita
Satpathy: Was
awarded for book Prapti written in Odia.
- Bulaki Sharma:
Was awarded
for book Murdjat Ar Dujee Kahaniyan written in Rajasthani.
- Vannadhasan: Was awarded for book Oru Siru
Isai written in Tamil.
- Genre Novel
- Gita Upadhyay: Was awarded for book
Janmabhumi Mero Swadesh written in Nepali.
- Jerry Pinto: Was awarded for book Em and the
big Hoom written in English.
- Nasira Sharma:
Was awarded
for book Paarijat written in Hindi.
- Boluwaru
Mohammad Kunhi:
Was awarded for book Swatantryada Ota written in Kannada.
- Edwin J.F.
D’souza: Was
awarded for book Kale Bhangar written in Konkani.
- Genre Criticism
- Aziz Hajini: Was awarded for book Aane Khane
written in Kashmiri.
- Nizam
Siddiqui: Was
awarded for book Mabad-e-Jadidiat Se Naye Ahed Ki Takhliqiyat Tak written
in Urdu.
- Genre Essay
- Nrisinghaprasad
Badhuri: Was
awarded for book Mahabharater Astadahi written in Bengali.
- Genre Play
- Swarajbir: Was awarded for the play titled
Masia Di Raat written in Punjabi.
