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

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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

 

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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