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Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu Award for contributions to Urdu literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First award 1955 Final award 2023 Highlights Total awarded 63 First winner Zafar Hussain Khan Most Recent winner Sadiqua Nawab Saher Website Official website Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in Urdu language. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹ 50,000. [ 1 ]
Kamal-e-Fun Award (Urdu: کمالِ فن ایوارڈ) is a lifetime achievement literary award presented annually by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL). The award was set up in 1997 and is given to Pakistani scholars for their entire literary career. The winner receives Rs. 10,00,000. [1] [2] [3] [4]
As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to ₹ 11 lakh (equivalent to ₹ 17 lakh or US$19,000 in 2023) and out of twenty-three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in sixteen languages: Hindi (eleven), Kannada (eight), Bengali and Malayalam (six each), Urdu (five) Gujarati, Marathi, Odia (four each), Assamese and ...
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.
[30] [31] [32] Critic and former President of Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi), Professor Gopi Chand Narang, said that Rohzin is an important turning point in the history of Urdu fiction. [33] Sahitya Akademi Award-winning literary critic, Nizam Siddiqui, has said that no novel as major as Rohzin has appeared in the second decade of the 21st century ...
Adamjee Literary Award, also known as Adamjee Prize, is a literary award bestowed by the government of Pakistan. It is presented by the president. The award seeks to recognize those people who have made "meritorious contribution" to the literature of Pakistan. [1] [2] It was first introduced by Pakistan Writers' Guild in 1959. [3]