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Recently, The Sahitya Akademi announced its awards for 2021 for literary works in 20 languages, including novels in Assamese and English by Anuradha Sarma Pujari and Namita Gokhale respectively.

About Sahitya Akademi Awards:

=> It was established in 1954, is a literary honour.

=> It is conferred by Sahitya Akademi which is India’s National Academy of Letters.

=> The Sahitya Akademi Award prizes the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages recognised by the Akademi.

Sahitya Akademi:

=> It is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture, encouraging the preservation and promotion of languages, especially the unrecognized and tribal languages.

=> The Sahitya Akademi Library is one of the largest multi-lingual libraries in India, with a rich collection of books on literature and allied subjects.

=> It publishes two bi-monthly literary journals: Indian Literature in English and Samkaleen Bharatiya Sahitya in Hindi.