Translation awards 2021

Translations of 22 books in various languages were selected for the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2021. Translations first published in the five years prior to the year immediately preceding the year of the prize are eligible. The 22 winners are:

Pori Hiloidari (Assamese) Neeta Sen Samarth (Bengali) Indira Boro (Bodo)

Neelam Sarin (Dogri)

Shanta Gokhale (English) Sonal Parikh (Gujarati) Dharanendra Kurkuri (Hindi) Guruling Kapse (Kannada) Piarey Hatash (Kashmiri) Geetha Shenoy (Konkani) Sunil Naliyath (Malayalam) M.M. Ahmad (Manipuri) (Late) Kumar Nawathe (Marathi)

Sanjib Upadhyaya (Nepali) Gourahari Das (Odia) Bhajanbir Singh (Punjabi) Shatavadhani R. Ganesh and B.N. Shashikiran (Sanskrit) Damayanti Beshra (Santali) Meena Roopchandani (Sindhi) Maalan (V. Narayanan) (Tamil)

K. Sajaya (Telugu)

Arjumand Ara (Urdu)

The translation prizes in Maithili and Rajasthani languages will be announced at a later date, said the Sahitya Akademi press note of June 24 announcing the prizes.