<h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022</strong></h1><h3 class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Context </strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Announcement of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022.</li></ul><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><h3 class="ql-align-justify"><strong>About Sahitya Akademi Award</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The Sahitya Akademi Award, which was created in 1954, is an annual literary honour bestowed by the <strong>Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.</strong></li><li class="ql-align-justify">The award, which was established in 1954, consists of a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 1,000,000.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every year, the Akademi bestows awards for literary works written in the 24 major Indian languages it recognizes, as well as an equal number of honors on literary translations from and into Indian languages.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The Sahitya Akademi has recognized English and Rajasthani as languages in which its curriculum can be executed, in addition to the <strong>22 languages listed in the Indian Constitution.</strong></li><li class="ql-align-justify">After the Jnanpith award, the Sahitya Akademi award is the second-highest literary honor bestowed by the Indian Government.</li></ul><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><h3 class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Criteria for Choosing Awardee:</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The author must be of <strong>Indian Nationality.</strong></li><li class="ql-align-justify">Book/work eligible for the award must be an outstanding contribution to the language and literature to which it belongs.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">When equal merit for books of two or more are found, certain criteria like total literary contribution and standing of authors shall be taken into consideration for declaring the award.</li></ul><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><h3 class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Sahitya Akademi Awards 2022</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The awards in 23 languages were announced and the award for the<strong> Bengali language i</strong>s yet to be announced.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The awards relate to books first published between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2020.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Tamil author&nbsp;Rajendran, Telugu writer Madhuranthakam Narendra and Sanskrit Poet Janardan Prasad Pandey ‘Mani’ were among those selected.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The<strong> Bhasha Samman </strong>was awarded to Udaya Nath Jha for his valuable contribution to the field of classical and medieval literature in the eastern region.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">In <strong>Assamese language</strong>, Manoj Kumar Goswami won the award for his collection of short stories Bhool Satya;Anuradha Roy won in English language for her novel All the Lives we never lived; Gulam Mohammad Shaikh won in Gujarati for Gher Jatan, a collection of autobiographical essays.</li></ul><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong>PRELIMS NOTES:</strong><a href="https://www.sunyaias.com/subscription-details/prelims-2023-sunya-notes-current-affairs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a></h1><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p>