Sahitya Akademi Award 1970 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 1970

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 1970 Winners List

This Winners List features 16 winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award 1970, in 1970.

Year	Winner Name	Gender	Book Name	Book Type	Language

1970	Madath Thekepat Vasudevan Nair	male	Kaalam	Novel	Malayalam
1970	Lakshminath Phukan	male	Mahatmar Pora Rupkonarloi	Reminiscences	Assamese
1970	Abu Sayeed Ayyub	male	Adhunikata O Rabindranath	Literary criticism	Bengali
1970	Narendra Khajuria	male	Nila Ambar Kale Badal	Short stories	Dogri
1970	Nagindas Parekh	male	Abhinavano Rasavichar	Literary criticism	Gujarati
1970	Ram Vilas Sharma Also won: Vyas Samman (1991)	male	Nirala Ki Sahitya Sadhana	Biography	Hindi
1970	Shankara Baaladeekshita Joshi	male	Karnataka Samskritiya Poorva Peethike	Cultural Study	Kannada
1970	Mohiuddin Hajini	male	Maqualaat	Essays	Kashmiri
1970	Kashikant Mishra ‘Madhup’	male	Radha Viraha	Epic poetry	Maithili
1970	Narahar Raghunath Phatak	male	Adarsh Bharat Sevak	Biography	Marathi
1970	Binod Chandra Nayak	male	Sarisrupa	Poetry	Odia
1970	V. Subramanya Sastri	male	śabdataraṅgiṇī	Treatise on verbal cognition	Sanskrit
1970	Narayan `Shyam'	male	Wari-a-Bharyo Palaand	Poetry	Sindhi
1970	Ku. Alagirisami	male	Anbalippu	Collection of short stories	Tamil
1970	D. Balagangadhar Tilak	male	Amrutham Kurisina Rathri	Poetry	Telugu
1970	Hayatullah Ansari	male	Lahoo Ke Phool	Novel	Urdu