List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English

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Sahitya Akademi Award in English
Award for contributions to Literature
Awarded for	Second-highest literary honour in India
Sponsored by	Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Reward(s)	₹1 lakh (US$1,300)
First awarded	1960
Last awarded	2021
Highlights
Total awarded	59
First winner	R. K. Narayan
Last winner	Namita Gokhale
Website	sahitya-akademi.gov.in

    The Sahitya Akademi Award is the second-highest literary honor in India. The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, aims at "promoting Indian literature throughout the world". The Akademi annually confers on writers of "the most outstanding books of literary merit". The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi. Instituted in 1954, the award recognizes and promotes excellence in writing and acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the preceding twelve months. As of 2015, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹1 lakh (US$1,300)

Recipients

Year	Book	Writer	Category of Books
1960	The Guide	R. K. Narayan	Novel
1964	The Serpent and the Rope	Raja Rao	Novel
1965	The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin	Verrier Elwin	Autobiography
1967	Shadow From Ladakh	Bhabani Bhattacharya	Novel
1969	An Artist in Life	Niharranjan Ray	Biography
1971	Morning Face	Mulk Raj Anand	Novel
1975	Scholar Extraordinary	Nirad C. Chaudhuri	Biography
1976	Jawaharlal Nehru	Sarvepalli Gopal	Biography
1977	Azadi	Chaman Nahal	Novel
1978	Fire on the Mountain	Anita Desai	Novel
1979	Inside the Haveli	Rama Mehta	Novel
1980	On the Mother	K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar	Biography
1981	Relationship	Jayanta Mahapatra	Poetry
1982	The Last Labyrinth	Arun Joshi	Novel
1983	Latter-Day Psalms	Nissim Ezekiel	Poetry
1984	The Keeper of the Dead	Keki N. Daruwalla	Poetry
1985	Collected Poems	Kamala Das	Poetry
1986	Rich Like Us	Nayantara Sahgal	Novel
1987	Trap falls In the Sky	Shiv K. Kumar	Poetry
1988	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth	Novel
1989	The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	Novel
1990	That Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande	Novel
1991	The Trotter-Nama	I. Allan Sealy	Novel
1992	Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra	Ruskin Bond	Novel
1993	After Amnesia	G. N. Devy	Essays
1994	Serendip	Dom Moraes	Poetry
1996	Memories of Rain	Sunetra Gupta	Novel
1998	Final Solutions and Other Plays	Mahesh Dattani	Drama
1999	The Collected Poems	A. K. Ramanujan	Poetry
2000	Cuckold	Kiran Nagarkar	Novel
2001	Rajaji: A Life	Rajmohan Gandhi	Biography
2002	A New World	Amit Chaudhuri	Novel
2003	The Perishable Empire	Meenakshi Mukherjee	Essays
2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Upamanyu Chatterjee	Novel
2005	The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy	Essays
2006	The Sari Shop	Rupa Bajwa	Novel
2007	Disorderly Women	Malathi Rao	Novel
2009	Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition	Chaturvedi Badrinath	Criticism
2010	The Book of Rachel	Esther David	Novel
2011	India after Gandhi	Ramachandra Guha	Historical Narrative
2012	These Errors are Correct	Jeet Thayil	Poetry
2013	Laburnum For My Head	Temsula Ao	Short stories
2014	Trying to Say Goodbye	Adil Jussawalla	Poetry
2015	Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer	Cyrus Mistry	Novel
2016	Em and the Big Hoom	Jerry Pinto	Novel
2017	The Black Hill	Mamang Dai	Novel
2018	The Blind Lady's Descendants	Anees Salim	Novel
2019	An Era of Darkness	Shashi Tharoor	Novel (non-fiction)
2020	When God is a Traveller	Arundhathi Subramaniam	Poetry
2021	Things to Leave Behind	Namita Gokhale	Novel