Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
| Sahitya Akademi Fellowship | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Literary award in India |
| Sponsored by | Sahitya Akademi |
| First award | 1968 |
| Final award | 2024 |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 109 |
| First winner | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Recent winner(s) | • Ajeet Cour • Chandrashekhar Kambar • Pran Kishore Kaul • Ved Rahi |
| Website | sahitya-akademi.gov.in/fellowship |
The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. It is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a living writer, the number of fellows at no time exceeding 21. Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit, the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature."
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first writer elected to the Fellowship; Mulk Raj Anand was the first Indian English writer to be inducted in 1989 and R. K. Narayan in 1994, the second.