Sahitya Akademi Translation Prizes are given each year to writers for their outstanding translations work in the 24 languages, since 1989.
Recipients Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in English. The award, as of 2019, consisted of 50,000.
Year Translator Title of the translation Original Title Original Language Genre Original Author 1989 Bikram K. Das Paraja Paraja Oriya Novel Gopinath Mohanty 1990 V. K. Narayana Menon Chemmeen Chemmeen Malayalam Novel Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai 1991 O. V. Vijayan After the Hanging and Other Stories Collection Malayalam Short Stories O. V. Vijayan 1992 Jai Ratan Krishan Chander: Selected Short Stories Collection Urdu Short Stories Krishan Chander 1993 Tejaswini Niranjana Phaniyamma Phaniyamma Kannada Novel M. K. Indira 1994 Dilip Chitre Says Tuka Selected Abhangs Marathi Poetry Tukaram 1995 R. Parthasarathy The Tale of the Anklet Cilappatikaram Tamil Epic Ilango Adigal 1996 Aruna Chakravarti Srikanta Srikanta Bengali Novel Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay 1997 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Imaginary Maps Collection Bengali Short Stories Mahasweta Devi 1998 Kalpana Bardhan Wives and Others Selection Bengali Short Stories and Novel Manik Bandopadhyay 1999 Gita Krishnankutty The Eye of God Deivathinte Kannu Malayalam Novel N.P. Mohammed 2000 P. Sreenivasa Rao Bharathipura Bharathipura Kannada Novel U. R. Ananthamurthy 2001 Gopa Majumdar Aparajito Aparajito Bengali Novel Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 2002 Nita Kumar Mai Mai Hindi Novel Geetanjali Shree 2003 (Late) Sujit Mukherjee Gora Gora Bengali Novel Rabindranath Tagore 2004 M. Asaduddin Lifting The Veil: Selected Writings Collection of Chughtai Urdu Novel Ismat Chughtai 2005 Pratik Kanjilal The Last Wilderness Antim Aranya Hindi Novel Nirmal Verma 2006 Mohammed Zakir Son of the Moment Ibu-ul-Vaqt Urdu Novel Nasir Ahmed 2007 Vinay Dharwadkar Kabir, the Weaver's Selection Hindi Poetry Kabir 2008 Meenakshi Shivram Topi Shukla Topi Shukla Hindi Novel Rahi Masoom Raza 2009 Tridip Suhrud Harilal Gandhi: A Life Harilal Gandhi Gujarati Biography Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal 2010 Ira Pande T'ta Professor T'ta Professor Hindi Novel Manohar Shyam Joshi 2011 Anju Makhija & Hari Dilgir Shah Abdul Latif: Seeking The Beloved Shah Jo Risalo Sindhi Poetry Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai 2012 M. L. Thangappa Love Stands Alone Tamil Sangam Tamil Poetry Various authors 2013 Ranjit Hoskote I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded Lalla's Vakhs Kashmiri Poetry Lal Ded 2014 Padmini Rajappa Kadambari Kadambari Sanskrit Poetry Bāṇabhaṭṭa 2015 Susheela Punitha Bharathipura Bharathipura Kannada Novel U.R. Ananthamurthy 2016 Aniruddhan Vasudevan One Part Woman Maadhorubaagan Tamil Novel Perumal Murugan 2017 Ranjita Biswas Written In Tears Selection Assamese Short Stories and Novel Arupa Kalita Patangia 2018 Subashree Krishnaswamy The Tamil Story - Through The Times, Through The Tides Collection Tamil Short Stories Various Authors 2019 Susan Daniel Kusumabale Kusumabale Kannada Novel Devanur Mahadeva 2020 Shrinath Perur Ghachar Ghochar Ghachar Ghochar Kannada Novel Vivek Shanbhag 2021 Shanta Gokhale Smritichitre :The Memoirs of a Spirited Wife Smritichitre Marathi Memoir Lakshmibai Tilak 2022 N. Kalyan Raman Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat Poonachi Tamil Novel Perumal Murugan 2023 Nabaneeta Dev Sen Chandrabati's Ramayan Chandrabati's Ramayan Bengali Epic Poetry Chandrabati 2024 Anisur Rahman Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi (The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals) Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi Urdu Poetry Collection Collection of Various Poets
See also
List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English
External links Akademi Translation Prizes For English Language
References