List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for English

Sahitya Akademi Translation Prizes are given each year to writers for their outstanding translations work in the 24 languages, since 1989.

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Recipients

Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in English. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹50,000.^[1]

Year	Translator	Title of the translation	Original Title	Original Language	Genre	Original Author	Ref.
1989	Bikram K. Das	Paraja	Paraja	Oriya	Novel	Gopinath Mohanty
1990	V. K. Narayana Menon	Chemmeen	Chemmeen	Malayalam	Novel	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
1991	O. V. Vijayan	After the Hanging and Other Stories	Collection	Malayalam	Short Stories	O. V. Vijayan
1992	Jai Ratan	Krishan Chander: Selected Short Stories	Collection	Urdu	Short Stories	Krishan Chander
1993	Tejaswini Niranjana	Phaniyamma	Phaniyamma	Kannada	Novel	M. K. Indira
1994	Dilip Chitre	Says Tuka	Selected Abhangs	Marathi	Poetry	Tukaram
1995	R. Parthasarathy	The Tale of the Anklet	Cilappatikaram	Tamil	Epic	Ilango Adigal
1996	Aruna Chakravarti	Srikanta	Srikanta	Bengali	Novel	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
1997	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	Imaginary Maps	Collection	Bengali	Short Stories	Mahasweta Devi
1998	Kalpana Bardhan	Wives and Others	Selection	Bengali	Short Stories and Novel	Manik Bandopadhyay
1999	Gita Krishnankutty	The Eye of God	Deivathinte Kannu	Malayalam	Novel	N.P. Mohammed
2000	P. Sreenivasa Rao	Bharathipura	Bharathipura	Kannada	Novel	U. R. Ananthamurthy
2001	Gopa Majumdar	Aparajito	Aparajito	Bengali	Novel	Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
2002	Nita Kumar	Mai	Mai	Hindi	Novel	Geetanjali Shree
2003	(Late) Sujit Mukherjee	Gora	Gora	Bengali	Novel	Rabindranath Tagore
2004	M. Asaduddin	Lifting The Veil: Selected Writings	Collection of Chughtai	Urdu	Novel	Ismat Chughtai
2005	Pratik Kanjilal	The Last Wilderness	Antim Aranya	Hindi	Novel	Nirmal Verma
2006	Mohammed Zakir	Son of the Moment	Ibu-ul-Vaqt	Urdu	Novel	Nasir Ahmed
2007	Vinay Dharwadkar	Kabir, the Weaver's	Selection	Hindi	Poetry	Kabir
2008	Meenakshi Shivram	Topi Shukla	Topi Shukla	Hindi	Novel	Rahi Masoom Raza
2009	Tridip Suhrud	Harilal Gandhi: A Life	Harilal Gandhi	Gujarati	Biography	Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal	[2][3]
2010	Ira Pande	T'ta Professor	T'ta Professor	Hindi	Novel	Manohar Shyam Joshi
2011	Anju Makhija & Hari Dilgir	Shah Abdul Latif: Seeking The Beloved	Shah Jo Risalo	Sindhi	Poetry	Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
2012	M. L. Thangappa	Love Stands Alone	Tamil Sangam	Tamil	Poetry	Various authors
2013	Ranjit Hoskote	I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded	Lalla's Vakhs	Kashmiri	Poetry	Lal Ded
2014	Padmini Rajappa	Kadambari	Kadambari	Sanskrit	Poetry	Bāṇabhaṭṭa
2015	Susheela Punitha	Bharathipura	Bharathipura	Kannada	Novel	U.R. Ananthamurthy	[4][5][6]
2016	Aniruddhan Vasudevan	One Part Woman	Maadhorubaagan	Tamil	Novel	Perumal Murugan	[7]
2017	Ranjita Biswas	Written In Tears	Selection	Assamese	Short Stories and Novel	Arupa Kalita Patangia
2018	Subashree Krishnaswamy	The Tamil Story - Through The Times, Through The Tides	Collection	Tamil	Short Stories	Various Authors
2019	Susan Daniel	Kusumabale	Kusumabale	Kannada	Novel	Devanur Mahadeva	[8]
2020	Shrinath Perur	Ghachar Ghochar	Ghachar Ghochar	Kannada	Novel	Vivek Shanbhag	[9]
2021	Shanta Gokhale	Smritichitre :The Memoirs of a Spirited Wife	Smritichitre	Marathi	Memoir	Lakshmibai Tilak	[10][11][12]
2022	N. Kalyan Raman	Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat	Poonachi	Tamil	Novel	Perumal Murugan	[13]
2023	Nabaneeta Dev Sen	Chandrabati's Ramayan	Chandrabati's Ramayan	Bengali	Epic Poetry	Chandrabati	[14]

See also

• India portal
• Literature portal

• List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English

External links

• Akademi Translation Prizes For English Language