| 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 21 winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award 1978, in 1978.
| Image | Year | Winner Name | Gender | Book Name | Book Type | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1978 |
Ramakanta Rath
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (2006) , Saraswati Samman (1992)
|
male | Saptama Ritu | Poetry | Odia |
|
1978 |
Ms. Anita Desai
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (2014)
|
female | Fire on the Mountain | Novel | English |
|
1978 |
Devulapalli Venkata Krishna Sastry
Also won:
Padma Bhushan (1976)
|
male | Collected Works of Krishna Sastri | 6 vols. | Telugu |
|
1978 |
Giani Gurmukh Singh 'Musafir' (Posthumous)
Also won:
Padma Vibhushan (1976)
|
male | Urvar Par | Short Stories | Punjabi |
|
1978 |
Homen Borgohain
|
male | Pita Putra | Novel | Assamese |
|
1978 |
Sankari Prasad Basu
|
male | Vivekananda O Samakalin Bharatvarsha, Vol. I, II and III | Biography and cultural history | Bengali |
|
1978 |
Narsingh Dev Jamwal
|
male | Sanjhi Dharti Bakhle Mahnu | Novel | Dogri |
|
1978 |
Harindra Dave
|
male | Hayati | Poetry | Gujarati |
|
1978 |
Bharat Bhushan Agarwal
|
male | Utna Vah Suraj Hai | Poetry | Hindi |
|
1978 |
Bengaluru Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy
|
male | Hasuru Honnu | Travelogue | Kannada |
|
1978 |
Ghulam Rasool Santosh
|
male | Be Soakh Rooh | Poetry | Kashmiri |
|
1978 |
D.K. Sukhthankar
|
male | Manni Punav | Humorous essays | Konkani |
|
1978 | female | Ratrimazha | Poetry | Malayalam | |
|
1978 |
G. C. Tongbra
|
male | Ngabongkhao | Play | Manipuri (Meitei) |
|
1978 |
Upendra Thakur ‘Mohan’
|
male | Baji Uthal Murali | Poetry | Maithili |
|
1978 |
Chintamani Tryambak Khanolkar
|
male | Nakshatranche Dene | Poetry | Marathi |
|
1978 |
Shiva Kumar Rai
|
male | Khahare | Short stories | Nepali |
|
1978 |
Anna Ram `Sudama'
|
male | Mevai Ra Runkh | Novel | Rajasthani |
|
1978 |
H.I. Sadarangani
|
male | Cheekh | Poetry | Sindhi |
|
1978 |
Vallikannan
|
male | Pudukavithaiyin Thottramum Valarchiyum | Criticism | Tamil |
|
1978 |
Yousuf Hussain Khan
|
male | Hafiz aur Iqbal | Criticism | Urdu |
This chart groups 21 Sahitya Akademi Award 1978 winners by Gender, across 2 distinct entries — male leads with 19 wins.
This chart groups 21 Sahitya Akademi Award 1978 winners by Book Type, across 10 distinct entries — Poetry leads with 8 wins.
This chart groups 21 Sahitya Akademi Award 1978 winners by Language, across 21 distinct entries — Odia leads with 1 win.
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