List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English
Recipients

List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English

Section Title: Recipients
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Year	Book	Writer	Category of Books

1960	The Guide	R. K. Narayan	Novel

1964	The Serpent and the Rope	Raja Rao	Novel

1965	The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin	Verrier Elwin	Autobiography

1967	Shadow From Ladakh	Bhabani Bhattacharya	Novel

1969	An Artist in Life	Niharranjan Ray	Biography

1971	Morning Face	Mulk Raj Anand	Novel

1975	Scholar Extraordinary	Nirad C. Chaudhuri	Biography

1976	Jawaharlal Nehru	Sarvepalli Gopal	Biography

1977	Azadi	Chaman Nahal	Novel

1978	Fire on the Mountain	Anita Desai	Novel

1979	Inside the Haveli	Rama Mehta	Novel

1980	On the Mother	K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar	Biography

1981	Relationship	Jayanta Mahapatra	Poetry

1982	The Last Labyrinth	Arun Joshi	Novel

1983	Latter-Day Psalms	Nissim Ezekiel	Poetry

1984	The Keeper of the Dead	Keki N. Daruwalla	Poetry

1985	Collected Poems	Kamala Das	Poetry

1986	Rich Like Us	Nayantara Sahgal	Novel

1987	Trapfalls In the Sky	Shiv K. Kumar	Poetry

1988	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth	Novel

1989	The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	Novel

1990	That Long Silence	Shashi Deshpande	Novel

1991	The Trotter-Nama	I. Allan Sealy	Novel

1992	Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra	Ruskin Bond	Short Stories

1993	After Amnesia	G. N. Devy	Essays

1994	Serendip	Dom Moraes	Poetry

1996	Memories of Rain	Sunetra Gupta	Novel

1998	Final Solutions and Other Plays	Mahesh Dattani	Drama

1999	The Collected Poems	A. K. Ramanujan	Poetry

2000	Cuckold	Kiran Nagarkar	Novel

2001	Rajaji: A Life	Rajmohan Gandhi	Biography

2002	A New World	Amit Chaudhuri	Novel

2003	The Perishable Empire	Meenakshi Mukherjee	Essays

2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State	Upamanyu Chatterjee	Novel

2005	The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhati Roy	Essays

2006	The Sari Shop	Rupa Bajwa	Novel

2007	Disorderly Women	Malathi Rao	Novel

2009	Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition	Chaturvedi Badrinath	Criticism

2010	The Book of Rachel	Esther David	Novel

2011	India after Gandhi	Ramachandra Guha	Historical Narrative

2012	These Errors are Correct	Jeet Thayil	Poetry

2013	Laburnum For My Head	Temsula Ao	Short stories

2014	Trying to Say Goodbye	Adil Jussawalla	Poetry

2015	Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer	Cyrus Mistry	Novel

2016	Em and the Big Hoom	Jerry Pinto	Novel

2017	The Black Hill	Mamang Dai

2018	The Blind Lady's Descendants	Anees Salim	Novel

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In 2013, Temsula Ao received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her short story collection, Laburnum for My Head.

final_sentence: In 2013, Temsula Ao received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her short story collection, Laburnum for My Head.