On December 30, 2021, the Sahitya Akademi announced its prestigious “Sahitya Akademi Awards, Yuva Puraskar as well as Bal Sahitya Puraskar” for 2021 in various languages.

Sahitya Akademi Award 2021

• The Sahitya Akademy Award 2021 was given in 20 Indian languages.
• Namita Gokhale received it in English for her novel titled ‘Things to Leave Behind’.
• Other winners include:

1. Anuradha Sarma Pujari (Assamese)
2. Bratya Basu (Bengali)
3. Daya Prakash Sinha (Hindi)
4. Wali Mohd Aseer Kashtawari (Kashmiri)
5. Khalid Hussain (Punjabi)
6. Vindeshwari prasad Mishr “Vinay” (Sanskrit) etc.

• Winner of Gujarati, Manipuri, Maithili, and Urdu languages will be announced later date.

Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2021

• The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2021 was given in 22 Indian languages.
• Megha Majumdar won this award for her debut book ‘A Burning’, which was published in 2020. This book is about struggles of life in India.
• Megha Majumdar was born in India, but now lives in New York and works as an Editor in chief- Books at Catapult Story.
• Other winners of the award include:

1. Abhijit Bora (Assamese)
2. Gourob Chakraborty (Bengali)
3. Drashti Soni (Gujarati)
4. Himanshu Vajpai (Hindi)
5. Mahesh Dahal (Nepali)
6. Swetapadma Satapathy (Sanskrit) etc.