List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali

Sahitya Akademi Award for Bengali
Award for contributions to Bengali literature
Awarded for	Literary award in India
Sponsored by	Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Reward(s)	₹1 lakh (US$1,200)
First awarded	1955
Last awarded	2021
Highlights
Total awarded	63
First winner	Jibanananda Das
Most Recent winner	Bratya Basu
Website	Official website

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Sahitya Akademi Award winners by language
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Sahitya Akademi Translation Prizes
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Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar
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Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar
Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri English Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Meitei (Manipuri) Marathi Nepali Odia Punjabi Rajasthani Sanskrit Santali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Urdu
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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. This is the second highest literary award of India, after Jnanpith Award. The awards given to Bengali writers for works in Bengali and English as well as for translations from Bengali literature are given below.