Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019 | 19 Dec 2019

Recently, Sahitya Akademi has announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019.

The awardees will receive an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and an amount of Rs. 1 lakh.
- Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray is the designer of the plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi.

Sahitya Akademi award established in 1954, is a literary honour that is conferred annually by Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of letters.
Akademi gives 24 awards annually to literary works in the languages it has recognized and an equal number of awards to literary translations from and into the languages of India.
- Besides the 22 languages enumerated in the Constitution of India, the Sahitya Akademi has recognised English and Rajasthani as languages in which its programme may be implemented.
Sahitya Akademi award is the second-highest literary honour by the Government of India, after Jananpith award.
Criteria:
- The author must be of Indian Nationality.
- Book/work eligible for the award must be an outstanding contribution to the language and literature to which it belongs.
- When equal merit for books of two or more are found, certain criteria like total literary contribution and standing of authors shall be taken into consideration for declaring award.