Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations. This is the second highest literary award of India, after Jnanpith Award. The awards given to Bengali writers for works in Bengali and English as well as for translations from Bengali literature are given below.
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Sahitya Akademi Award winners
Following is the list of Akademi Award winners. No awards were conferred in 1960, 1968 and 1973.
Translations from Bengali literature
Translations into Bengali
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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA