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Ananda Puraskar

The award can be traced to a comment by Annada Shankar Ray ruing the absence of literary awards in Bengal. It was started on April 20, 1958 and has been given in the same month since. Initially, there were two awards, in memory of Prafulla Kumar Sarkar and Suresh Chandra Majumdar, the founders of Anandabazar Patrika. Another award was started in 1984 in memory of Ashok Kumar Sarkar to commemorate the golden jubilee of Desh. All three awards were merged in 2000.

Awardees

• 1958^[1] – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• .......Samaresh Basu (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)
• 1960 – Pramathanath Bishi^[1] – Kerry Saheber Munshi (novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• 1961 – Syed Mujtaba Ali
• 1966 – Sukumar Sen
• 1967 – Bimal Kar
• 1968 – Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya
• 1970 - Gour Kishore Ghosh
• 1971 – Satyajit Ray
• 1972 – Sunil Gangopadhyay^[2] - for general work
• 1973 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay^[3] - Manabjomin (novel)
• 1974 – Moti Nandi
• 1975 – Shakti Chattopadhyay^[4]
• 1976 – Buddhadeb Guha – Halud Basanta (novel)
• 1981 – Sanjib Chattopadhyay
• 1982 – Samaresh Majumdar
• 1983 – Annada Shankar Ray
• 1984 – Subhas Bhattacharya,
• .......Dibyendu Palit^[5] – Sahajoddha (novel),
• .......Sukumar Sen, Sagarmoy Ghosh, Bimal Mitra (Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial)^[1]
• 1985 – Alokranjan Dasgupta
• 1986 – Ketaki Kushari Dyson^[6] – Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhane (historical novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• 1988 – Abul Bashar
• 1989 – Sunil Gangopadhyay^[2] – Purbo-Paschim (novel)
• 1990 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay^[3] – Doorbeen (novel)
• .......Jay Goswami^[7] – Ghumiechho, Jhaupata? (poetry)
• 1991 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Jaya Mitra
• 1992 – Taslima Nasrin – Nirbachito Column (articles)
• 1993 – Bangla Academy (refused)
• 1994 – Annada Shankar Ray,
• .......Shamsur Rahman,
• .......Anisuzzaman (Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial)^[8]
• 1995 – Debarati Mitra – Smriti Bole Kichhu Nei (poetry)
• 1996 – Akhtaruzzaman Elias – Khwabnama (novel)
• 1997 – Bani Basu^[9] – Maitreya Jatak (novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• ........Ketaki Kushari Dyson^[6] & Sushobhan Adhikari – Ranger Rabindranath (on Tagore's colour vision) (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)
• 1998 – Jay Goswami^[7] – Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo (novel in verse)
• 1999 – Mandakranta Sen – Hriday Abadhya Meye (poetry)
• 2000 – Taslima Nasrin – Amar Meyebela (memoirs)
• 2001^[10] – Gauriprasad Ghosh – Everyman's Dictionary
• 2002^[11] – Sudhir Chakrabarti – Baul Fakir Katha (folk culture)
• 2003^[12] – Tilottama Majumdar – Basudhara (novel)
• 2004^[13] – Srijato – Uranto Sab Joker (poetry)
• 2005^[14] – Mihir Sengupta – Bishad Briksha (autobiography)
• 2006^[15] – Utpal Kumar Basu – Sukh-Duhkher Sathi (poetry)
• 2007^[16] – Dhritikanta Lahiri Chaudhuri – Hatir Boi (on elephants)
• 2008^[17] – Hasan Azizul Huq – Agunpakhi (novel)
• 2009^[18] – Ranajit Guha – Kabir Naam O Sarbanaam
• 2010 - Sunanda Sikdar - Dayamayir Katha
• 2011^[19] - Gautam Bhadra - Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?
• 2012^[20] – Pinaki Thakur - Chumbaner Kshata (poetry)

External links

• Contributors to the Rabindranath Section of Parabaas, Biographical data in website of Parabaas Bookstore

See also

• Rabindra Puraskar
• Bankim Puraskar
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
• Bangla Academy Award

References

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