Sahitya Akademi Award 2016 - Complete 24 Awardees List

Here is the list of complete 24 Awardees of Sahitya Akademi Award 2016. Every year this prestigious award is given by the Sahitya Kala Academy in the field of literature. This year award includes awardees from Play, Essay, Criticism, Novel, Short Stories & Poetry.

Play: 
1. Swaraj Bir (Punjabi).

Essay: 
2. Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri (Bengali).

Criticism: 
3. Aziz Hajini (Kashmiri)
4. Nizam Siddiqui (Urdu).

Short Stories: 
5. Chahatrapal (Dogri),
6. Shyan Darihare (Maithili),
7. Moirangthem Rajen (Manipuri),
8. Asaram Lomate (Marathi),
9. Paramita Satpathy (Odia),
10. Bulaki Sharma (Rajasthani)
11. Vannadhasan (Tamil).

Poetry: 
12. Jnan Pujari (Assamese),
13. Anju (Bodo),
14. Kamal Vora (Gujarati),
15. Prabha Varma (Malayalam),
16. Sitanath Acharya (Sanskrit),
17. Gobinda Chandra Majhi (Santhali),
18. Nand Javeri (Sindhi)
19. Papineni Sivasankar (Telugu).

Novel: 
20. Jerry Pinto (English)
21. Npsira Sharma (Hindi)
22. Boluwaru Mohammad Kunhi (Kannada)
23. Edwin J.F.D­souza (Konkani)
24. Gita Upadhyay (Nepali)