Literary award · India
Ananda Puraskar
Award for Bengali literature conferred annually by the ABP Group to writers.
About Ananda Puraskar
The Ananda Puraskar (lit. 'Ananda Award') is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India.
From the Wikipedia article “Ananda Puraskar”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recent winners
| Year | Winner | Winning work |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Swapnamoy Chakraborty | — |
| 2013 | Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay | — |
| 2012 | Pinaki Thakur | — |
| 2011 | Gautam Bhadra | — |
| 2010 | Sunanda Sikdar | — |
| 2009 | Ranajit Guha | — |
| 2008 | Agunpakhi | — |
| 2008 | Hasan Azizul Huq | — |
| 2007 | Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury | — |
| 2004 | Srijato Bandyopadhyay | — |
| 2003 | Tilottama Majumdar | — |
| 2002 | Sudhir Chakravarty | — |
| 2000 | Taslima Nasrin | — |
| 1999 | Mandākrāntā Sen | — |
From Wikidata; the list may be incomplete for some years.
Eligibility and entering
Check the official rules of the Ananda Puraskar for the current eligibility window, accepted formats, residency or language requirements and any entry fee. For most established prizes the publisher submits on the author's behalf, often with a limit on entries per imprint.
If you are self-published, look for an explicit statement that independently published books are accepted, and budget for entry fees and copies for judges.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q4751308 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).