politicianwriter m veerappa moily and poet arundhathi subramaniam were among the 20 authors who received the sahitya akademi award for 2020 at a ceremony in delhi on september 18while moily received the prestigious award for his epic poetry sri bahubali ahimsadigvijayam in kannada subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection when god is a traveller in englishthe other winners in poetry include harish meenakshi gujarati anamika hindi rs bhaskar konkani irungbam deven manipuri rupchand hansda santali and nikhileswar telugunanda khare marathi maheshchandra sharma gautam sanskrit imaiyam tamil and sri hussainulhaque bagged the award for their novelsapurba kumar saikia assamese late dharanidhar owari bodo late hiday koul bharti kashmiri kamalkant jha maithili and gurdev singh rupana punjabi have received the award for short storiesthe akademi has named gian singh dogri and jetho lalwani sindhi the winners for their plays while mani shankar mukhopadhyay popularly known as shankar received the award for memoir bengalirecipients of sahitya akademi award2020 at a special ceremony organized by sahityaakademi on 18092021 at kamani auditorium new delhikishanreddybjp arjunrammeghwal mlekhi minofculturegoi ksraosahitya pibindia pibculture mibindia ddnational pictwittercomxobjl9xixp sahitya akademi sahityaakademi september 18 2021the award which includes a casket containing an engraved copper plaque a shawl and an amount of rs 100000 was presented at the award presentation functionthe executive board also announced the sahitya akademi translation prize 2020 in 24 indian languages on saturdaythe english translation of kannada novel ghachar ghochar written by vivek shanbhag and translated by srinath perur and the hindi translation of thiruvalluvars thirukkural by t e s raghwan won the award among 22 othersthe books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by the selection committees of three members each in the concerned languages in accordance with the rules and procedure laid down for the purpose the national academy of letters said in a statementthe translation prize carries an amount of rs 50000 and a copper plaque which will be presented to the translators of each of these books at a special function to be held sometime later this year it said