| 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 12 winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award 1956, in 1956.
| Image | Year | Winner Name | Gender | Book Name | Book Type | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1956 |
Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane
Also won:
Bharat Ratna (1963)
|
male | History of Dharma Sastra, Vol. IV | Research | Sanskrit |
|
1956 |
Ms. Amrita Pritam
Also won:
Padma Vibhushan (2004) , Jnanpith Award (1981)
|
female | Sunehade | Poetry | Punjabi |
|
1956 |
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
|
male | Arogya Niketan | Novel | Bengali |
|
1956 |
Ramnarayan V. Pathak
|
male | Brihat — Pingal | Treatise on prosody | Gujarati |
|
1956 |
Vasudev Sharan Agarwal
|
male | Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya | Commentary | Hindi |
|
1956 |
Ram Shri Mugali
|
male | Kannada Sahitya Charitre | History of Literature | Kannada |
|
1956 |
Zinda Kaul 'Masterji'
|
male | Sumran | Poetry | Kashmiri |
|
1956 |
I. C. Chacko, Illiparambil
|
male | Paniniya Pradyotam | Commentary | Malayalam |
|
1956 |
Bal Sitaram Mardhekar
|
male | Saundarya Ani Sahitya | A study of Aesthetics | Marathi |
|
1956 |
Kalki Krishnamurthy
|
male | Alai Osai | Novel | Tamil |
|
1956 |
Bulusu Venkateswarlu
|
male | Bharatiya Tattva Sastramu | History of Indian Philosophy | Telugu |
|
1956 |
S. Abid Hussain
|
male | Qaumi Tehzib Ka Masala | Survey of Indian culture | Urdu |
This chart groups 12 Sahitya Akademi Award 1956 winners by Gender, across 2 distinct entries — male leads with 11 wins.
This chart groups 12 Sahitya Akademi Award 1956 winners by Book Type, across 9 distinct entries — Poetry leads with 2 wins.
This chart groups 12 Sahitya Akademi Award 1956 winners by Language, across 12 distinct entries — Sanskrit leads with 1 win.
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