About Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of India’s most prestigious literary honors, presented annually by the Sahitya Akademi. Established in 1954, it recognizes outstanding books of literary merit in 24 Indian languages, including English, promoting cultural diversity and literary excellence.
List of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners 1956
In the year 1956 Goverment of India announced 12 Sahitya Akademi Award winners/recipients. Here is the list of the 12 Sahitya Akademi Award award winners for 1956:
| Images | Year | Recipient Name | Book Name | Book Category | Language |
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1956 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | Arogya Niketan | Novel | Bengali |
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1956 | Ramnarayan V. Pathak | Brihat — Pingal | Treatise on prosody | Gujarati |
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1956 | Vasudev Sharan Agarwal | Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya | Commentary | Hindi |
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1956 | Ram Shri Mugali | Kannada Sahitya Charitre | History of Literature | Kannada |
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1956 | Zinda Kaul 'Masterji' | Sumran | Poetry | Kashmiri |
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1956 | I. C. Chacko, Illiparambil | Paniniya Pradyotam | Commentary | Malayalam |
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1956 | Bal Sitaram Mardhekar | Saundarya Ani Sahitya | A study of Aesthetics | Marathi |
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1956 |
Amrita Pritam Also won: Jnanpith Award |
Sunehade | Poetry | Punjabi |
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1956 | Pandurang Vaman Kane | History of Dharma Sastra, Vol. IV | Research | Sanskrit |
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1956 | Kalki Krishnamurthy | Alai Osai | Novel | Tamil |
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1956 | Bulusu Venkateswarlu | Bharatiya Tattva Sastramu | History of Indian Philosophy | Telugu |
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1956 | S. Abid Hussain | Qaumi Tehzib Ka Masala | Survey of Indian culture | Urdu |
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