List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English - wikipedia List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English Sahitya Akademi Award Award for contributions to Literature Awarded for Second - highest literary honour in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward ( s ) ₹ 1 lakh ( US $1,500 ) First awarded 1960 Last awarded 2017 Highlights Total awarded 56 First winner R.P. Sethu Pillai Last winner Mamang Dai Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in The Sahitya Akademi Award is the second - highest literary honor in India. The Sahitya Akademi, India 's National Academy of Letters, aims at `` promoting Indian literature throughout the world ''. The Akademi annually confers on writers of `` the most outstanding books of literary merit ''. The awards are given for works published in any of the 24 languages recognised by the akademi. Instituted in 1954, the award recognizes and promotes excellence in writing and acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the preceding twelve months. As of 2015, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹ 1 lakh ( US $1,500 ). Recipients 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 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 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 Trapfalls In the Sky Shiv K. Kumar Poetry The Golden Gate Vikram Seth Novel The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh Novel That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande Novel 1991 The Trotter - Nama I. Allan Sealy Novel Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra Ruskin Bond Short Stories After Amnesia G.N. Devy Essays Serendip Dom Moraes Poetry 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 Rajaji : A Life Rajmohan Gandhi Biography 2002 A New World Amit Chaudhuri Novel 2003 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee Essays 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 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 Novel Further reading Sahitya Akademi Award References ^ Jump up to : `` Akademi Awards ''. Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 23 December 2013. Jump up ^ `` Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards ''. The Hindu. 24 December 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2016. Jump up ^ `` POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011 '' ( PDF ) ( Press release ). Sahitya Akademi. 2011 - 12 - 21. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2012 - 05 - 08. Retrieved 2011 - 12 - 21. Jump up ^ `` Guha wins it for narrative history ''. The Hindu. December 21, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Jeet Thayil among 24 selected for Sahitya Akademi Awards ''. The Hindu. December 21, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013 ''. Sahitya Akademi. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013. Jump up ^ `` Sahitya Akademi Main Award 2017 '' ( PDF ). Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 26 December 2017. Sahitya Akademi Award recipients Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri English Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Manipuri Marathi Nepali Odia Punjabi Rajasthani Sanskrit Santhali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Urdu Sahitya Akademi Award for English 1960 -- 1970 The Guide by R.K. Narayan ( 1960 ) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao ( 1964 ) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin ( 1965 ) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya ( 1967 ) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray ( 1969 ) 1971 -- 1980 Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand ( 1971 ) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri ( 1975 ) Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal ( 1976 ) Azadi by Chaman Nahal ( 1977 ) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai ( 1978 ) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta ( 1979 ) On the Mother by K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar ( 1980 ) 1981 -- 1990 Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra ( 1981 ) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi ( 1982 ) Latter - Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel ( 1983 ) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla ( 1984 ) Collected Poems by Kamala Das ( 1985 ) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal ( 1986 ) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar ( 1987 ) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth ( 1988 ) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh ( 1989 ) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande ( 1990 ) 1991 -- 2000 The Trotter - Nama by Allan Sealy ( 1991 ) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond ( 1992 ) After Amnesia by G.N. Devy ( 1993 ) Serendip by Dom Moraes ( 1994 ) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta ( 1996 ) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani ( 1998 ) The Collected Poems by A.K. Ramanujan ( 1999 ) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar ( 2000 ) 2001 -- 2010 Rajaji : A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi ( 2001 ) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri ( 2002 ) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee ( 2003 ) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee ( 2004 ) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy ( 2005 ) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa ( 2006 ) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao ( 2007 ) Mahabharata : An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath ( 2009 ) The Book of Rachel by Esther David ( 2010 ) 2011 -- present India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha ( 2011 ) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil ( 2012 ) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao ( 2013 ) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla ( 2014 ) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry ( 2015 ) Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto ( 2016 ) The Black Hill by Mamang Dai ( 2017 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Sahitya_Akademi_Award_winners_for_English&oldid=822129885 '' Categories : Lists of books Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English Indian English Lists of Sahitya Akademi Award winners Talk About Wikipedia हिन्दी Edit links This page was last edited on 24 January 2018, at 15 : 37. 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Question: when did mulk raj anand get sahitya academy award
Answer: 1971