Sahitya Akademi Award 1969 Winners List

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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

About Sahitya Akademi Award 1969

The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of India’s most prestigious literary honors, presented annually by the Sahitya Akademi. Established in 1954, it recognizes outstanding books of literary merit in 24 Indian languages, including English. The award celebrates excellence across genres such as poetry, novels, short stories, and criticism, promoting cultural diversity and linguistic heritage while encouraging writers to contribute significantly to Indian literature.

Sahitya Akademi Award 1969 Winners List

This Winners List features 16 winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award 1969, in 1969.

Year	Winner Name	Gender	Book Name	Book Type	Language

1969	Dr. Niharranjan Ray Also won: Padma Bhushan (1969)	male	An Artist in Life	Biography	English
1969	Atul Chandra Hazarika	male	Manchalekha	Study of Assamese theatre	Assamese
1969	Manindra Ray	male	Mohini Aaraal	Poetry	Bengali
1969	Swami Anand (Not Accepted)	male	Kulkathao	Pen-portraits	Gujarati
1969	Shrilal Shukla Also won: Padma Bhushan (2008) , Jnanpith Award (2009) , Vyas Samman (1999)	male	Raag Darbari	Novel	Hindi
1969	Honnali Tipperudraswamy	male	Karnataka Samskriti Sameekshe	Cultural Study	Kannada
1969	Abdul Khaliq Tak Zainageri	male	Ka \'Shri Zab\': Ny Hund Alleqavaad Phera	Linguistic study	Kashmiri
1969	Edasseri Govindan Nair	male	Kavile Pattu	Poetry	Malayalam
1969	Upendranth Jha	male	Du Patra	Novel	Maithili
1969	Shrinivas Narayan Banhatti	male	Natyacharya Deval	Biography	Marathi
1969	Surendra Mohanty	male	Nila Saila	Novel	Odia
1969	Harbhajan Singh Also won: Saraswati Samman (1994)	male	Na Dhuppe Na Chaanve	Poetry	Punjabi
1969	M. U. Malkani	male	Sindhi Nasr Ji Tarikh	History of Sindhi prose	Sindhi
1969	Bharathidasan	male	Pisirantaiyar	Play	Tamil
1969	Tummala Seetharama Murthy	male	Mahatma Katha	Poetry	Telugu
1969	Makhdum Mohiuddin	male	Bisat-Raqs	Poetry	Urdu