Akhil Bharatiya ‘Kriti Puraskar’ for the Year 2019 | 28 Nov 2022

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On November 27, 2022, the Sahitya Akademi of the Department of Culture announced the ‘Kriti Puraskar’ for the calendar year 2019. This includes 13 Indian and 15 Regional ‘Kriti Puraskar’.

Key Points

• One lakh rupees per creator in All India Award and 51 thousand rupees per creator in regional award is adorned with shawl, shrifal, memento and citation.
• Akhil Bharatiya ‘Kriti Puraskar’
  • Akhil Bharatiya Pt. Makhanlal Chaturvedi (Essay) Award- Dr. Manoj Pandey's (Nagpur) work 'New Perspective of Criticism',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (Story) - Sachchidananda Joshi (Delhi) work 'Pal Bhar Ki Pehchaan',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Raja Veersingh Dev (Novel) - Prof. Manisha Sharma's (Amarkantak) work 'Yeh Ishq',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Acharya Ramchandra Shukla (Criticism) - Dr. Kavita Bhate's (Uttarakhand) work 'Life Values in Indian Literature',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Pt. Bhawani Prasad Mishra (Song and Hindi Ghazal) – Dr. R. P. Saraswat's (Saharanpur) work 'Tum Bin',
  • All India Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Poetry) - Dr. Indu Rao (Haryana) work 'Chhanh Sanskriti Ki',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Kubernath Rai (Fine Essay) - Rajesh Jain (Delhi) 'Ishwar Ki Atmakatha',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Vishnu Prabhakar (Autobiography Biography) - Dr. Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri (Mohali)'s work 'Shri Guru Nanak Devji',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Nirmal Verma (Memoirs) - Prof. Suryaprakash Chaturvedi's (Indore) work 'Badalte Hawayein',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Mahadevi Verma (Picture) - Prashant Pol (Jabalpur) work 'Ve Pandrah Din',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Prof. Vishnukant Shastri (Travelogue) - Dr. Sudha Gupta 'Amrita' (Katni) work 'Chalen Bhraman Ki Aur',
  • Akhil Bharatiya Bhartendu Harishchandra (translation) - Santosh Ranjan's (Bhopal) work 'Thelma Meri Korili'
  • Akhil Bharatiya Narad Muni (Facebook/Blog/Net) Award- Ajay Jain 'Vikalp' (Indore) has been given to his page 'Facebook/Blog/Net'.
• Regional ‘Kriti Puraskar’
  • Vrindavan Lal Verma (Novel) Award- Dr. Ashwini Kumar Dubey ' Kisi Shahar Mein',
  • Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (Story) – Dr. Garima Sanjay Dubey's (Indore) work 'Do Dhruvon Ke Beech Ki Aas',
  • Shri Krishna Saral (Poem) - Guru Saxena (Narsinghpur) 'Sita Vanvas',
  • Regional Acharya Nanddulare Vajpayee (Criticism) - To 'Sahitya Mimansa', a work by Bula Kar (Indore),
  • Harikrishna Premi (Drama) - Ashok Manwani ' Watan Azad Dekhoon',
  • Rajendra Anuragi (Diary) - Rajesh Awasthi 'Lava' (Gwalior) work 'Ateet Ke Shabdbimb',
  • Pt. Balkrishna Sharma 'Naveen' (the first work of the writer of the state) - Dr. Annapurna Sisodia's (Ashok Nagar) work 'Aurat Buddha Nahi Hoti',
  • Isuri (Folk Language) - Acharya Durgacharan Shukla (Tikamgarh) 'Madan Ras Barse',
  • Harikrishna Devasare (Children's Literature) – Dr. Premlata Neelam (Damoh)'s work 'Gale Ka Haar',
  • Naresh Mehta (Dialogues, Screenplay Writing) – Sandeep Sharma (Dhar) scriptwriting to 'Prayag Pravah and Jaitu Simhastha',
  • Jainendra Kumar 'Jain' (Short Story) - Dr. Girijesh Saxena's (Bhopal) work 'Chanakya Ke Dant',
  • Seth Govind Das (One Act) – Dr. Sudhir Azad's (Bhopal) work 'Main Khudiram Trailokyanath Bose',
  • Sharad Joshi (Satire) - Meera Jain's (Ujjain) work 'Helya Hadsa',
  • Virendra Mishra (Song) - Rajendra Sharma 'Akshar' (Bhopal) work ‘Sambodhan’,
  • Dushyant Kumar (Ghazal) – The award has been given to the work 'Gunguni Si Dhoop' by Dr. Priyanka Tripathi (Shahdol).