Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

List of Fellows

1968

•             S. Radhakrishnan (1898–1975), philosopher

 

1969

•             C. Rajagopalachari (1879–1972), Tamil writer and translator

 

•             Tarashankar Bandyopadhyaya (1898–1971), Bengali novelist

 

•             Sumitranandan Pant (1900–1977), Hindi poet

 

•             D. R. Bendre (1896–1981), Kannada poet.

 

1970

•             Viswanadha Satyanarayana (1895–1976), Telugu poet

 

•             Raghupati Sahay Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896–1982), Urdu poet

 

•             Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1910–1994), Malayalam novelist and short-story writer

 

•             Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1898–1976), Marathi novelist

 

1971

•             Gopinath Kaviraj (1877–1976), Sanskrit scholar and philosopher

 

•             Dattatreya Balkrushna (Kaka) Kalelkar (1885–1981), Gujarati poet, travelogue writer, and essayist

 

•             Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari (1895–1977), Punjabi novelist and short story writer

 

•             Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991), Oriya poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist

 

1973

•             M. U. Malkani (1896–1980), Sindhi writer

•             Nilamani Phukan (1879–1978)

 

•             Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985), Sanskrit scholar

•             V. R. Trivedi (1899–1991)

•             Sukumar Sen (1900–1992), Bengali linguist

 

•             Masti Venkatesa Iyengar (1891–1986), Kannada writer

 

1975

•             T. P. Meenakshisundaran (1899–1980), Dravidian linguist

1979

•             Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande (1901–1982), Marathi poet

 

•             Jainendra Kumar (1905–1988), Hindi novelist

 

•             K. V. Puttappa Kuvempu (1904–1994), Kannada writer and poet

 

•             V. Raghavan (1908–1979), Sanskrit scholar

•             Mahadevi Verma (1907–1987), Hindi poet

 

1985

•             K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999)

 

•             Umashankar Joshi (1911–1988)

 

 

•             K. Shivarama Karanth (1902–1997), Kannada writer

 

1989

•             Laxmanshastri Joshi (1901–1994), Sanskrit and Marathi scholar

 

•             Annada Shankar Ray(1904–2002), Bengali poet and essayist

 

•             Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004), English novelist

 

•             Vinayak Krishna Gokak (1909–1992), Kannada writer and scholar

 

•             Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1912–1999), Malayalam novelist and short story writer

 

•             Amritlal Nagar (1916–1990), Hindi writer

 

1994

•             Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), Bengali novelist and poet

 

•             R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English novelist

 

•             P. T. Narasimhachar (1905–1998), Kannada poet

 

•             N. Balamani Amma (1909–2004), Malayalam poet

 

•             Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1908–1998), Marathi scholar

•             Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Urdu novelist and short story writer

 

•             Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1906–1994), Oriya novelist

•             Harbhajan Singh (1919–2002), Punjabi poet

•             Nagarjun (1911–1998), Hindi and Maithili poet

1996

•             Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916–2004), Oriya short story writer and poet

 

•             Krishna Sobti (1925), Hindi writer

 

•             Vidya Niwas Mishra (1926–2005), Hindi and Sanskrit scholar

 

•             Vinda Karandikar (1918), Marathi poet

 

•             Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Bengali poet

 

•             D. Jayakanthan (1934), Tamil writer, essayist, and critic

 

•             Raja Rao (1908), English novelist

 

1999

•             Ram Vilas Sharma (1912–2000)

 

•             Rajendra Shah (1913)

•             Gunturu Seshendra Sharma (1927)

 

•             Syed Abdul Malik (1919–2000)

 

•             N. Khelchandra Singh (1920), Manipuri expert on Archaic Meeteilon written in Meetei Script

 

•             K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1915–2003), Kannada poet

 

2000

•             Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar (1909–2001), Indologist

•             Rahman Rahi (1925)

 

2001

•             Ramnath Shastri (1914)

 

2002

•             Bhisham Sahni (1915–2003), Hindi fiction writer

 

•             Kaifi Azmi (1925–2002), Urdu poet

 

•             Nilamani Phookan (1933), Assamese poet

 

•             Govind Chandra Pandey (1923)

 

2004

•             U. R. Anantha Murthy (1932)

 

•             Amrita Pritam (1919–2005)

 

•             Sankha Ghosh (1932)

 

•             Vijaydan Detha (1926)

 

•             Bh. Krishnamurthi (1928)

 

2005

•             Nirmal Verma (1929–2005), Hindi writer and novelist

 

•             Kovilan (Vattamparampil Velappan Ayyappan) (1923), Malayalam novelist

 

2006

•             Vishnu Prabhakar (1912), Hindi writer

 

•             Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer

 

2007

•             Anita Desai, English novelist

 

•             Ravindra Kelekar, Konkani writer

 

•             Kartar Singh Duggal, Punjabi writer

 

List of Honorary Fellows

1974

•             Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2002), Senegalese poet, and cultural theorist

 

1996

•             Edward C. Dimock, Jr. (1929–2001), Bengali scholar

•             Daniel H. H. Ingalls (1916), Sanskrit scholar

 

•             Kamil V. Zvelebil (1927), scholar of Dravidian linguistics

 

•             Ji Xianlin (1911), Sanskrit scholar and translator

 

2002

•             Vassilis Vitsaxis (1920)

 

•             E. P. Chelyshev (1921)

2007

•             R. E. Asher