Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia | |
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Award for contributions to Odia 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 | 2022 |
Highlights | |
First winner | Gopinath Mohanty |
Most Recent winner | Gayatribala Panda |
Total awarded | 62 |
Website | Official website |
The 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. No awards were given in 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1968.[1]