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SAHITYA AKADEMI FELLOWSHIP

 

 

The highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a writer is by electing him/her as its Fellow. This honour is reserved for the 'immortals of literature' and limited to twenty-one only at any given time. Following is the list of writers who have been elected as Sahitya Akademi Fellow till date:


SAHITYA AKADEMI FELLOWS

 

2024

1. 

Smt. Ajeet Cour

Punjabi

1934-

2. 

Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar

Kannada

1937-

3. 

Sri Pran Kishore Kaul

Kashmiri

1926-

4. 

Sri Ved Rahi

Dogri

1933-

2021

1. 

Sri Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay

Bengali

1935-

2. 

Sri Ruskin Bond

English

1934-

3. 

Sri Vinod Kumar Shukla

Hindi

1937-

4. 

Dr. M. Leelavathy

Malayalam

1927-

5. 

Dr. Bhalchandra Nemade

Marathi/English

1938-

6. 

Dr. Tejwant Singh Gill

Punjabi

1938-

7. 

Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya

Sanskrit

1950-

8. 

Sri Indira Parthasarathy

Tamil

1930-

2019

1. 

Sri Jayant Mahapatra

English/Odia

1928-2023

2. 

Smt. Padma Sachdev

Dogri

1940-2021

3. 

Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari

Hindi

1940-

4. 

Prof. Nagen Saikia

Assamese

1929-

2017

1. 

Dr. Namwar Singh

Hindi

1926-2019

2016

1. 

Dr. Gurdial Singh

Punjabi

1933-2016

2. 

Sri Nirendranath Chakravarty

Bengali

1924-2018

2014

1. 

Prof. S.L. Bhyrappa

Kannada

1931-

2. 

Dr. C. Narayana Reddy

Telugu

1931-2017

2013

1. 

Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri

Sanskrit

1930-2021

2. 

Dr. Raghuveer Chaudhari

Gujarati

1938-

3. 

Sri Arjan Hasid

Sindhi

1930-2019

4. 

Dr. Sitakanta Mahapatra

Odia

1937-

5. 

Dr. M.T. Vasudevan Nair

Malayalam

1933-

6. 

Sri Asit Rai

Nepali

1940-2019

2010

1. 

Dr. Bholabhai Patel

Gujarati

1934-2012

2. 

Sri Kunwar Narain

Hindi

1927-2017

3. 

Sri Khushwant Singh

English

1915-2014

4. 

Prof. Kedar Nath Singh

Hindi

1934-2018

5. 

Prof. Chandranath Mishra ‘Amar’

Maithili

1925-2021

2009

1. 

Sri Ramakanta Rath

Odia

1934-

2. 

Prof. Gopi Chand Narang

Urdu

1931-2022

2007

1. 

Prof. Anita Desai

English

1937-

2. 

Dr. Kartar Singh Duggal

Punjabi

1917-2012

3. 

Sri Ravindra Kelekar

Konkani

1925-2010

2006

1. 

Prof. Manoj Das

English/Odia

1934-2021

2. 

Sri Vishnu Prabhakar

Hindi

1914-2009

2004

1. 

Prof. U.R. Anantha Murthy

Kannada

1932-2014

2. 

Smt. Amrita Pritam

Punjabi

1919-2005

3. 

Sri Sankha Ghosh

Bengali

1932-2021

4. 

Sri Vijay Dan Detha

Rajasthani

1926-2013

5. 

Prof. Bh. Krishnamurti

Telugu

1928-2012

6. 

Sri Nirmal Verma

Hindi

1929-2005

7. 

Sri Kovilan (V.V. Ayyappan)

Malayalam

1923-2010

2002

1. 

Sri Kaifi Azmi

Urdu

1925-2002

2. 

Sri Nilamani Phookan

Assamese

1933-2023

3. 

Sri Bhisham Sahni

Hindi

1915-2003

4. 

Sri Govind Chandra Pandey

Sanskrit

1923-2011

2001

1. 

Prof. Ram Nath Shastri

Dogri

1914-2009

2000

1. 

Prof. R.N. Dandekar

Marathi

1909-2001

2. 

Prof. Rahman Rahi

Kashmiri

1925-2023

1999

1. 

Sri Ram Vilas Sharma

Hindi

1912-2000

2. 

Sri Rajendra Shah

Gujarati

1913-2010

3. 

Sri Gunturu Seshendra Sharma

Telugu

1927-2007

4. 

Sri Syed Abdul Malik

Assamese

1919-2000

5. 

Pt. N. Khelchandra Singh

Manipuri/English

1920-2010

6. 

Sri K.S. Narasimhaswamy

Kannada

1915-2003

1996

1. 

Sri Sachidananda Raut-Roy

Odia

1916-2004

2. 

Ms. Krishna Sobti

Hindi

1925-2019

3. 

Prof. Vidya Niwas Mishra

Hindi/Sanskrit

1926-2005

4. 

Sri Vinda Karandikar

Marathi

1918-2010

5. 

Sri Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Bengali

1919-2003

6. 

Sri D. Jayakanthan

Tamil

1934-2015

7. 

Sri Raja Rao

English

1908-2006

1994

1. 

Smt. Ashapurna Devi

Bengali

1909-1995

2. 

Sri R.K. Narayan

English

1906-2001

3. 

Dr. P.T. Narasimhachar

Kannada

1905-1998

4. 

Smt. N. Balamani Amma

Malayalam

1909-2004

5. 

Dr. V.B. Kolte

Marathi

1908-1998

6. 

Ms. Qurratulain Hyder

Urdu

1927-2007

7. 

Sri Kanhu Charan Mohanty

Odia

1906-1994

8. 

Dr. Harbhajan Singh

Punjabi

1919-2002

9. 

Sri Nagarjun

Hindi

1911-1998

1989

1. 

Sri Tarkateertha Laxmanshastri Joshi

Marathi

1901-1994

2. 

Sri Annada Shankar Ray

Bengali

1904-2002

3. 

Dr. Mulk Raj Anand

English

1909-2004

4. 

Prof. Vinayak Krishna Gokak

Kannada

1909-1992

5. 

Sri Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Malayalam

1912-1999

6. 

Sri Amritlal Nagar

Hindi

1916-1990

1985

1. 

Prof. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar

English

1908-1999

2. 

Prof. Umashankar Joshi

Gujarati

1911-1988

3. 

Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth

Kannada

1902-1997

1979

1. 

Sri A.R. Deshpande ‘Anil’

Marathi

1901-1982

2. 

Sri Jainendra Kumar

Hindi

1905-1988

3. 

Dr. K.V. Puttappa ‘Kuvempu’

Kannada

1904-1994

4. 

Dr. V. Raghavan

Sanskrit

1908-1979

5. 

Smt. Mahadevi Verma

Hindi

1907-1987

1975

1. 

Prof. T.P. Meenakshisundaran

Tamil/English

1899-1980

1973

1. 

Prof. M.U. Malkani

Sindhi

1896-1980

2. 

Sri Nilamani Phukan

Assamese

1879-1978

3. 

Prof. V.V. Mirashi

Sanskrit/Marathi

1893-1985

4. 

Prof. V.R. Trivedi

 

1899-1991

5. 

Dr. Sukumar Sen

Bengali

1900-1992

6. 

Dr. Masti Venkatesa Iyengar

Kannada

1891-1986

1971

1. 

Mm. Gopinath Kaviraj

Sanskrit

1877-1976

2. 

Sri D.B. Kakasaheb Kalelkar

Gujarati/Marathi

1885-1981

3. 

Sri Gurbaksh Singh

Punjabi

1895-1977

4. 

Sri Kalindi Charan Panigrahi

Odia

1901-1991

1970

1. 

Dr. Viswanatha Satyanarayana

Telugu

1895-1976

2. 

Sri Raghupati Sahay ‘Firaq Gorakhpuri’

Urdu

1896-1982

3. 

Sri Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Malayalam

1910-1994

4. 

Sri V.S. Khandekar

Marathi

1898-1976

1969

1. 

Sri C. Rajagopoalachari

English/Tamil

1879-1972

2. 

Sri Tarasankar Bandyopadhyaya

Bengali

1898-1971

3. 

Sri Sumitranandan Pant

Hindi

1900-1977

4. 

Dr. D.R. Bendre

Kannada

1896-1981

1968

1. 

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

English

1898-1975



 

HONORARY FELLOWS

 

This is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on literary persons of outstanding merit who are not nationals of India and the number of such Fellows is limited to ten at any given time. The Akademi has so far elected the following Honorary Fellows :

 

2022

1. Sri Prafulla Mohanti 1934 -

 

2021

1. Prof. Michael J. Hutt 1957 -

 

2020

1. Mr. Velcheru Narayana Rao 1931 -

 

2015

1. Mr. Katsuro Koga 1935 -

 

2014

1. Prof. Kim Yang Shik 1931 -
2. Dr. Jin Din Haan  

 

2013

1. Dr. Abhimanyu Unnuth 1937-2018

 

2010

1. Sir V.S. Naipaul 1932 -

 

2007

1. Professor R. E. Asher 1926-2022

 

2010

1. Dr. Vassilis Vitsaxis 1920 -
2. Professor E. P. Chelyshev 1921-2020

 

1996

1. Professor Edward C. Dimock, Jr. 1929-2001
2. Professor Daniel H.H. Ingalls 1916-1999
3. Professor Kamil V. Zvelebil 1927-2009
4. Professor Ji Xian Lin 1911-2009

 

1974

1. Sri Leopold Sedar Senghor 1906-2002

 

 

PREMCHAND FELLOWSHIP


Sahitya Akademi has also instituted a Fellowship named after Premchand during his 125th Birth Anniversary in 2005. This Fellowship would be given to scholars doing research on Indian literature or to creative writers from the countries of the SAARC region other than India.


The following are the details of the scheme and rules and procedure for operating it:

  1. One Fellowship may be offered to a person of eminence in the field of culture and literature from the Saarc countries every year.
  2. The period of Fellowship should be upto three months depending on the convenience and availability of the writer/scholar.
  3. Actual cost of international air journey (by economy class) may be borne by the Sahitya Akademi, as also train or air journey within India.
  4. Arrangements for boarding and lodging would be made by the Sahitya Akademi.
  5. An amount of Rs.25,000 per month might be given to the scholar/writer for meeting incidental expenses.
  6. A database of writers and scholars might be created to select the Fellows. Names of writers and scholars might be invited from the Indian Missions in SAARC countries, members of the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi, senior writers and scholars and from select cultural and literary institutions and universities.
  7. The visiting Fellow might deliver talks or do readings from his/her works in different places during his visit.
  8. The visiting Fellow will be expected to submit a comprehensive report of his visit which will be placed before the Executive Board.

The first Premchand Fellowship was offered to Janab Intizar Husain eminent Urdu fiction writer and columnist from Pakistan. He visited India in two phases. He participated in literary programmes and delivered lectures at Aligarh Muslim University, Luchnow University, Patna University and Banaras Hindu University in the first phase of his visit from 1 September 2007 to 3 September 2007. In the second phase, he took part in programmes held at Bangalore, Mysore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and delivered lectures at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Hyderabad University from 24 January to 25.

 

YEAR NAME COUNTRY

2022

No Fellowship was given

 

2020

Prof. Nirmalendu Goon

Bangladesh

2019

No Fellowship was given

 

2018

No Fellowship was given

 

2017

Mr. Santhan Ayathurai

Sri Lanka

2016

Ms. Kishwar Naheed

Pakistan

2015

Mr. Muhammad Waheed Nadwi

Maldives

2014

Ms. Jean Arasanayagam

Sri Lanka

2013

Dr. Ram Dayal Rakesh Nepal

2012

Prof. Yasmine Gooneratne

Sri Lanka

2011

Ms. Sumathy Sivamohan

Sri Lanka

2010

Mr. Syed Shamsul Haq

Bangladesh

2009

Ms. Selina Hossain

Bangladesh

2008

Mr. Ibrahim Waheed

Maldives

2007

Sri Intizar Hussain

Pakistan

 


 

Dr. ANANDACOOMARASWAMY FELLOWSHIP


Sahitya Akademi in 1996, instituted a Fellowship in the name of the great scholar and aesthete Dr. Anandacoomaraswamy to be offered to scholars from Asian countries to pursue literary projects of their choice.


Sahitya Akademi had announced the conferment of the first Fellowships in 1996 on three scholars namely, Dr. Azad N. Shamatov, Head of South Asian Languages Department, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent, Prof. Senake Bandaranayake, Director, Post-Graduate Institute of Archeology, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Prof. Chie Nakane, a noted scholar from Japan. Of the three, Dr. Shamatov and Prof. Bandaranayake availed the fellowship and spent several weeks in India doing useful research.


The scheme which was discontinued in view of practical difficulties was revived in 2005 after revising the terms and conditions which are given below:

  1. One Fellowship may be offered to a person of eminence in the field of Asian art, culture, literature and language studies every year under this scheme.
  2. The period of Fellowship should be upto three months depending on the convenience and availability of the writer/scholar.
  3. Actual cost of international air journey (by economy class) may be borne by the Sahitya Akademi, as also train or air journey within India.
  4. Arrangements for boarding and lodging would be made by the Sahitya Akademi.
  5. An amount of Rs. 25,000 per month might be given to the scholar for meeting incidental expenses.
  6. The visiting Fellow may be requested to deliver lectures on the topic of his/her specialization in institutions/departments dealing in the discipline.
  7. A database of writers and scholars might be created to identify the Fellows. Names of writers and scholars might be invited from the Indian Missions abroad, members of the Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi, senior writers and scholars and from select cultural and literary institutions and universities.
  8. The visiting Fellow will be expected to submit a comprehensive report of his visit which will be placed before the Executive Board.
YEAR NAME COUNTRY

2022

No Fellowship was given

 

2020

Dr. Asanga Tilakratne

Sri Lanka

2019

No Fellowship was given

 

2018

No Fellowship was given

 

2017

Ms. Nalina Gopal

Singapore

2016

Professor Zalmai Hewadmal

Afghanistan

2015

Professor Jiang Jingkui

China

2014

Dr. Ithamar Theodor

Israel

2013

Mohd. Issa Barhoum

Jordan

2012

Prof. (Dr.) Sophana Srichampa

Bangkok (Thailand)

2011

Ms. Mihoko Hiraoka

Japan

2010

Dr. Suchitra Chongstitvatana

Bangkok (Thailand)

2009

Ms. Merlie M. Alunan

Philippines

2008

Prof. (Ms.) Do Thu Ha

Vietnam

2007

Ms. Mami Yamada

Japan

1996

Prof. Chie Nakane (did not avail)

Japan

1996

Prof. Senake Badbaranayake

Sri Lanka

1996

Dr. Azad N. Shamatov

Tashkent

 


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