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.

Following is the list of Akademi Award winners.

[1] Source:[56] (Note: when this article was created in 2007, the list of awardees in various categories was taken from the official site of the Sahitya Akademi.

The site has since been revamped and currently does not show any list of awardees; instead it shows a search option for awardees with specified search parameters.

It gives details about the main awards up to 2007 and translation prizes up to 2005.)