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 1969
In the year 1969 Goverment of India announced 16 Sahitya Akademi Award winners/recipients. Here is the list of the 16 Sahitya Akademi Award award winners for 1969:
| Images | Year | Recipient Name | Book Name | Book Category | Language |
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1969 | Atul Chandra Hazarika | Manchalekha | Study of Assamese theatre | Assamese |
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1969 | Manindra Ray | Mohini Aaraal | Poetry | Bengali |
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1969 | Niharranjan Ray | An Artist in Life | Biography | English |
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1969 | Swami Anand (Not Accepted) | Kulkathao | Pen-portraits | Gujarati |
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1969 | Shrilal Shukla | Raag Darbari | Novel | Hindi |
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1969 | Honnali Tipperudraswamy | Karnataka Samskriti Sameekshe | Cultural Study | Kannada |
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1969 | Abdul Khaliq Tak Zainageri | Ka 'Shri Zab': Ny Hund Alleqavaad Phera | Linguistic study | Kashmiri |
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1969 | Edasseri Govindan Nair | Kavile Pattu | Poetry | Malayalam |
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1969 | Upendranth Jha | Du Patra | Novel | Maithili |
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1969 | Shrinivas Narayan Banhatti | Natyacharya Deval | Biography | Marathi |
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1969 | Surendra Mohanty | Nila Saila | Novel | Odia |
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1969 |
Harbhajan Singh Also won: Saraswati Samman |
Na Dhuppe Na Chaanve | Poetry | Punjabi |
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1969 | M. U. Malkani | Sindhi Nasr Ji Tarikh | History of Sindhi prose | Sindhi |
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1969 | Bharathidasan | Pisirantaiyar | Play | Tamil |
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1969 | Tummala Seetharama Murthy | Mahatma Katha | Poetry | Telugu |
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1969 | Makhdum Mohiuddin | Bisat-Raqs | Poetry | Urdu |
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