Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
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The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.[1][2] It is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a living writer,[1] the number of fellows at no time exceeding 21.[3] Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit, the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature."[3][4]
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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | |
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Awarded for | Literary award in India |
Sponsored by | Sahitya Akademi |
First awarded | 1968 |
Last awarded | 2021 |
Highlights | |
Total awarded | 105 |
First winner | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
Recent winner(s) | • Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay • Ruskin Bond • Vinod Kumar Shukla • M. Leelavathy • Bhalchandra Nemade • Tejwant Singh Gill • Rambhadracharya • Indira Parthasarathy |
Website | Official Website |
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first writer elected to the Fellowship; Mulk Raj Anand was the first Indian English writer to be inducted in 1989 and R. K. Narayan in 1994, the second.[5]