| Name | Sahitya Akademi Award |
|---|---|
| Type | Literary Awards |
| Award For | Promotion of Literature |
| Award By | Goverment of India |
| First | 1954 |
| Last | 2026 |
| Status | Active |
| Country | India |
This Winners List features 54 winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English, from 1960 to 2025.
| Image | Year | Winner Name | Gender | Book Name | Book Type | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2025 |
Navtej Sarna
|
male | Crimson Spring | Novel | English |
|
2024 |
Easterine Kire
|
female | Spirit Nights | Novel | English |
|
2023 |
Neelam Gour
|
female | Requiem in Raga Janaki | Novel | English |
|
2022 |
Anuradha Roy
|
female | All the Lives We Never Lived | Novel | English |
|
2021 |
Namita Gokhale
|
female | Things to Leave Behind | Novel | English |
|
2020 |
Arundhathi Subramaniam
|
female | When God is a Traveller | Poetry | English |
|
2019 |
Shashi Tharoor
|
male | An Era of Darkness | Novel (non-fiction) | English |
|
2018 |
Anees Salim
|
male | The Blind Lady\'s Descendants | Novel | English |
|
2017 |
Mamang Dai
|
female | The Black Hill | Novel | English |
|
2016 |
Jerry Pinto
|
male | Em and the Big Hoom | Novel | English |
|
2015 |
Cyrus Mistry
|
male | Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer | Novel | English |
|
2014 |
Adil Jussawalla
|
male | Trying to Say Goodbye | Poetry | English |
|
2013 |
Temsula Ao
|
female | Laburnum For My Head | Short stories | English |
|
2012 |
Jeet Thayil
|
male | These Errors are Correct | Poetry | English |
|
2011 |
Dr. Ramachandra Guha
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (2009)
|
male | India after Gandhi | Historical Narrative | English |
|
2010 |
Esther David
|
female | The Book of Rachel | Novel | English |
|
2009 |
Chaturvedi Badrinath
|
male | Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition | Criticism | English |
|
2007 |
Malathi Rao
|
female | Disorderly Women | Novel | English |
|
2006 |
Rupa Bajwa
|
female | The Sari Shop | Novel | English |
|
2005 |
Arundhati Roy
|
female | The Algebra of Infinite Justice | Essays | English |
|
2004 |
Upamanyu Chatterjee
|
male | The Mammaries of the Welfare State | Novel | English |
|
2003 |
Meenakshi Mukherjee
|
female | The Perishable Empire | Essays | English |
|
2002 |
Amit Chaudhuri
|
male | A New World | Novel | English |
|
2001 |
Rajmohan Gandhi
|
male | Rajaji: A Life | Biography | English |
|
2000 |
Kiran Nagarkar
|
male | Cuckold | Novel | English |
|
1999 |
A. K. Ramanujan
|
male | The Collected Poems | Poetry | English |
|
1998 |
Mahesh Dattani
|
male | Final Solutions and Other Plays | Drama | English |
|
1996 |
Sunetra Gupta
|
female | Memories of Rain | Novel | English |
|
1994 |
Dom Moraes
|
male | Serendip | Poetry | English |
|
1993 |
Ganesh Narayandas Devy
|
male | After Amnesia | Essays | English |
|
1992 |
Ruskin Bond
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (2014)
|
male | Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra | Novel | English |
|
1991 |
Allan Sealy
|
male | The Trotter-Nama | Novel | English |
|
1990 |
Shashi Deshpande
|
female | That Long Silence | Novel | English |
|
1989 |
Amitav Ghosh
Also won:
Jnanpith Award (2018)
|
male | The Shadow Lines | Novel | English |
|
1988 |
Vikram Seth
|
male | The Golden Gate | Novel | English |
|
1987 |
Prof. Shiv Kumar Kumar
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (2001)
|
male | Trapfalls In the Sky | Poetry | English |
|
1986 |
Nayantara Sahgal
|
female | Rich Like Us | Novel | English |
|
1985 |
Kamala Das
|
female | Collected Poems | Poetry | English |
|
1984 |
Keki N. Daruwalla
|
male | The Keeper of the Dead | Poetry | English |
|
1983 |
Nissim Ezekiel
|
male | Latter-Day Psalms | Poetry | English |
|
1982 |
Arun Joshi
|
male | The Last Labyrinth | Novel | English |
|
1981 |
Jayanta Mahapatra
|
male | Relationship | Poetry | English |
|
1980 |
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
|
male | On the Mother | Biography | English |
|
1979 |
Rama Mehta
|
female | Inside the Haveli | Novel | English |
|
1978 |
Ms. Anita Desai
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (2014)
|
female | Fire on the Mountain | Novel | English |
|
1977 |
Chaman Nahal
|
male | Azadi | Novel | English |
|
1976 |
Dr. Sarvepalli Gopal
Also won:
Padma Vibhushan (1999)
|
male | Jawaharlal Nehru | Biography | English |
|
1975 |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
|
male | Scholar Extraordinary | Biography | English |
|
1971 |
Mulk Raj Anand
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (1967)
|
male | Morning Face | Novel | English |
|
1969 |
Dr. Niharranjan Ray
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (1969)
|
male | An Artist in Life | Biography | English |
|
1967 |
Bhabani Bhattacharya
|
male | Shadow From Ladakh | Novel | English |
|
1965 |
Dr. Verrier Elwin
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (1961)
|
male | The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin | Autobiography | English |
|
1964 |
Raja Rao
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (1969) , Padma Vibhushan (2007)
|
male | The Serpent and the Rope | Novel | English |
|
1960 |
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (1964) , Padma Vibhushan (2000)
|
male | The Guide | Novel | English |
This chart groups 54 Sahitya Akademi Award in English winners by Gender, across 2 distinct entries — male leads with 36 wins.
This chart tracks Sahitya Akademi Award in English winners by year from 1960 to 2025, spanning 54 years, with the most wins (1) recorded in 1960.
This chart groups 54 Sahitya Akademi Award in English winners by Language, across 1 distinct entry — English leads with 54 wins.
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