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• Sahitya Akademi, announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 21 languages. 8 books of poetry, 3 of novels, 2 of short stories, 3 Essays, 3 Literary Criticism, 1 Play and 1 Research have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024.
• Hindi poet Gagan Gill for her book on poetry “Main Jab Tak Aai Bahar” and English writer Easterine Kire for her novel “Spirit Nights" are among the 21 recipients of the annual Sahitya
• Akademi Awards.
• Awards in Bengali, Dogri and Urdu will be declared at a later stage.

Sahitya Akademi Awards

• The first Awards were given in 1955.
• Prize Money: Rs.1,00,000
• Award prizes to the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages recognised by the Akademi.

Sahitya Akademi Awardees 2024

About Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters)

• Established: 12 March 1954
• Headquarters: New Delhi
• Regional Offices: Kolkata Office, Bangalore Office, Chennai Office, Mumbai Office, Agartala Office (North-East Centre for Oral Literature)
• President: Dr. Madhav Kaushik
• Functions as an autonomous organisation
• Registered as a society on 7 January 1956, under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
• Akademi preserves and promotes literature contained in 24 Indian Languages recognized by it through Awards, Fellowships, Grants, Publications, Literary Programmes, Workshops and Exhibitions.

Awards given by Sahitya Akademi

• Sahitya Akademi Award
• Bhasha Samman Award
• Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation
• Bal Sahitya Puraskar
• Yuva Puraskar