Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is a literary honour in India bestowed by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. It is the highest honour conferred by the Akademi on a living writer, the number of fellows at no time exceeding 21.
Elected from among writers thought by the Akademi to be of acknowledged merit, the fellows are sometimes described as the "immortals of Indian literature."
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.
Raghuveer Chaudhari (2013)
Sitakant Mahapatra (2013)
M. T. Vasudevan Nair (2013)
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
Narayan on a 2009 stamp of India
Image: R. K. Narayan
R. K. Narayan, c. 1925–26
R. K. Narayan with his wife Rajam, c. 1935