Sahitya Academi Awards - English

Year	Book	Author
2007	Disorderly Women (Novel)	Malathi Rao
2006	The Sari Shop (Novel)	Rupa Bajwa
2004	The Mammaries of the Welfare State (Novel)	Upamanyu Chatterjee
2003	The Perishable Empire: Essays On Indian Writing In English (Essays)	Meenakshi Mukherjee
2002	A New World (Novel)	Amit Chaudhuri
2001	Rajaji : A Life (Biography)	Rajmohan Gandhi
2000	Cuckold (Novel)	Kiran Nagarkar
1999	The collected poems of A. K. Ramanujan (Poetry)	*A. K. Ramanujan
1998	Final Solutions and Other Plays (Plays)	Mahesh Dattani
1996	Memories of Rain (Novel)	Sunetra Gupta
1994	Serendip (Poetry)	Dom Moraes
1993	After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism (Criticism)	G.N. Devy
1992	Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (Short stories)	Ruskin Bond
1991	The Trotter-Nama (Novel)	I. Allan Sealy
1990	That Long Silence (Novel)	Shashi Deshpande
1989	The Shadow Lines (Novel)	Amitav Ghosh
1988	The Golden Gate (Novel in verse)	Vikram Seth
1987	Trapfalls in the Sky (Poetry)	Shiv K. Kumar
1986	Rich Like Us (Novel)	Nayantara Sahgal
1985	Collected Poems (Poetry)	Kamala Das
1984	The Keeper of the Dead (Poetry)	Keki N. Daruwalla
1983	Latter-Day Psalms (Poetry)	Nissim Ezekiel
1982	The Last Labyrinth (Novel)	Arun Joshi
1981	Relationship (Poetry)	Jayant Mahapatra
1980	On the Mother, Vol. I & II (Biography)	K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
1979	Inside the Haveli (Novel)	*Rama Mehta
1978	Fire on the Mountain (Novel)	Anita Desai
1977	Azadi (Novel)	Chaman Nahal
1976	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1947) (Biography)	S. Gopal
1975	Scholar Extraordinary (Biography)	Nirad C. Chaudhury
1971	Morning Face (Novel)	Mulk Raj Anand
1969	An Artist in Life (Study of Tagore)	Niharranjan Ray
1967	Shadow from Ladakh (Novel)	Bhabani Bhattacharya
1965	The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin (Autobiography)	*Verrier Elwin
1963	The Serpent and the Rope (Novel)	Raja Rao
1960	The Guide (Novel)	R.K. Narayan