The Ananda Puraskar (Bengali: আনন্দ পুরস্কার Anondo Puroshkar) (literally Ananda Award) is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India.
The award can be traced to a comment by Annada Shankar Ray ruing the absence of literary awards in Bengal. It was started on April 20, 1958 and has been given in the same month since. Initially, there were two awards, in memory of Prafulla Kumar Sarkar and Suresh Chandra Majumdar, the founders of Anandabazar Patrika. Another award was started in 1984 in memory of Ashok Kumar Sarkar to commemorate the golden jubilee of Desh. All three awards were merged in 2000.
1958 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial).......Samaresh Basu (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)1960 – Pramathanath Bishi – Kerry Saheber Munshi (novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)1961 – Syed Mujtaba Ali1963 - Kalidas Roy1966 – Sukumar Sen1967 – Bimal Kar1968 – Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya1970 - Gour Kishore Ghosh1971 – Satyajit Ray, Santosh Kumar Ghosh1972 – Sunil Gangopadhyay - for general work1973 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Manabjomin (novel)1974 – Moti Nandi1975 – Shakti Chattopadhyay1976 – Buddhadeb Guha – Halud Basanta (novel)1981 – Sanjib Chattopadhyay1982 – Samaresh Majumdar1983 – Annada Shankar Ray1984 – Subhas Bhattacharya,.......Dibyendu Palit – Sahajoddha (novel),.......Sukumar Sen, Sagarmoy Ghosh, Bimal Mitra (Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial)1985 – Alokranjan Dasgupta1986 – Ketaki Kushari Dyson – Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhane (historical novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)1988 – Abul Bashar1989 – Sunil Gangopadhyay – Purbo-Paschim (novel).......Amitav Ghosh – The Shadow Lines (novel)1990 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay – Doorbeen (novel).......Jay Goswami – Ghumiechho, Jhaupata? (poetry)1991 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Jaya Mitra1992 – Taslima Nasrin – Nirbachito Column (articles)1993 – Bangla Academy (refused).......Clinton B. Seely (Ashok Kumar Sarkar memorial)1994 – Annada Shankar Ray,.......Shamsur Rahman,.......Anisuzzaman (Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial),.......Naren Biswas – Aitihyer Angikar (Audio cassettes, 13 Nos.)1995 – Dr. Nazrul Islam - Bakul (novel)1996 – Akhtaruzzaman Elias – Khwabnama (novel)1997 – Bani Basu – Maitreya Jatak (novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)........Ketaki Kushari Dyson & Sushobhan Adhikari – Ranger Rabindranath (on Tagore's colour vision) (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)1998 – Jay Goswami – Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo (novel in verse)1999 – Mandakranta Sen – Hriday Abadhya Meye (poetry)2000 – Taslima Nasrin – Amar Meyebela (memoirs)2001 – Gauriprasad Ghosh – Everyman's Dictionary2002 – Sudhir Chakrabarti – Baul Fakir Katha (folk culture)2003 – Tilottama Majumdar – Basudhara (novel)2004 – Srijato – Uranto Sab Joker (poetry)2005 – Mihir Sengupta – Bishad Briksha (autobiography)2006 – Utpal Kumar Basu – Sukh-Duhkher Sathi (poetry)2007 – Dhritikanta Lahiri Chaudhuri – Hatir Boi (on elephants)2008 – Hasan Azizul Huq – Agunpakhi (novel)2009 – Ranajit Guha – Kabir Naam O Sarbanaam2010 - Sunanda Sikdar - Dayamayir Katha2011 - Gautam Bhadra - Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?2012 – Pinaki Thakur - Chumbaner Kshata (poetry)2013 – Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay – Dhanapatir Singhalyatra (novel)2014 – Arindam Chakrabarti – Bhaatkaporer Bhabna Ebong Koyekti Aatpoure Darshanik Prayas (philosophy)2015 - Swapnamoy Chakraborty - Holde Golap2016 - Sudhir Dutta - Tabu Moi o Srestho Kobitaguccho (‘তাঁবু মই ও শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতাগুচ্ছ’)