Sahitya Akademi Awards 2025 announced on 16 March

Exam-focused facts from the 17 March 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Sahitya Akademi announced its 2025 awards on 16 March 2026 for 24 Indian languages.
The award ceremony will be held in New Delhi on 31 March 2026.
Each awardee receives an engraved copper plaque, a shawl and ₹1,00,000.
Navtej Sarna won the English award for his novel ‘Crimson Spring’ set around the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Mamta Kalia won the Hindi award for her memoir ‘Jeete Jee Allahabad’.
Nandini Sidha Reddy won the Telugu award for poetry collection ‘Animesha’.