Sahitya Akademi Award 2004 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 2004

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 2004 Winners List

This Winners List features 22 winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2004, in 2004.

Year	Winner Name	Gender	Book Name	Book Type	Language

2004	Hirendra Nath Dutta	male	Manuh Anukule	Poetry	Assamese
2004	Sudhir Chakravarti	male	Baul Fakir Katha	Essay	Bengali
2004	Shiv Nath	male	Cheten Di Chitkabri	Essays	Dogri
2004	Upamanyu Chatterjee	male	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Novel	English
2004	Amritlal Vegad	male	Saundaryani Nadi Narmada	Travelogue	Gujarati
2004	Viren Dangwal	male	Dushchakra Mein Srista	Poetry	Hindi
2004	Geetha Nagabhushan	female	Baduku	Novel	Kannada
2004	Ghulam Nabi Firaq	male	Sada Te Samandar	Poetry	Kashmiri
2004	Jayanti Naik	female	Athang	Short Stories	Konkani
2004	Paul Zachariah Also won: Odakkuzhal Award (2003) , Ezhuthachan Puraskaram (2020)	male	Zachariyayute Kathakal	Short Stories	Malayalam
2004	Birendrajit Naorem	male	Lanthengnariba Lanmee	Poetry	Manipuri (Meitei)
2004	Chandrabhanu Singh	male	Shakuntala	Epic	Maithili
2004	Sadanand Deshmukh	male	Baromas	Novel	Marathi
2004	Jas Yonjan ‘Pyasi’	male	Shanti Sandeha	Poetry	Nepali
2004	Prafulla Kumar Mohanty	male	Bharatiya Sanskruti O Bhagwadgita	Essays	Odia
2004	Sutinder Singh Noor	male	Kavita Di Bhumika	Criticism	Punjabi
2004	Namd Bhardwa	male	Samhi Khulto Marag	Novel	Rajasthani
2004	Devarshi Kalanath Shastry	male	Akhyana Vallari	Fiction	Sanskrit
2004	Satish Rohra	male	Kavita Khan Kavita Tain	Literary Criticism	Sindhi
2004	Tamilanban	male	Vanakkam Valluva	Poetry	Tamil
2004	Ampasayya Naveen	male	Kala Rekhalu	Novel	Telugu
2004	Salam Bin Razzaq	male	Shikasta Buton Ke Darmiyan	Short Stories	Urdu