Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi announces Annual Literary Awards 2025
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi has announced its annual awards for the year 2025. The Akademi confers Awards of Recognition every year to veteran authors of Chandigarh (UT) for their lifelong contribution to literature in Hindi, Punjabi, English, Urdu and Sanskrit.
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Oct 22, 2026 07:41
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Chandigarh, October 22, 2026: Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi has announced its annual awards for the year 2025. The Akademi confers Awards of Recognition every year to veteran authors of Chandigarh (UT) for their lifelong contribution to literature in Hindi, Punjabi, English, Urdu and Sanskrit.
For the year 2025, the following senior authors will be felicitated under this category:
-Dr. Pankaj Malviya – Hindi
-Dr. Ishwar Dayal Gour – Punjabi
-Khushwant Singh – English
-Dr. Naresh – Urdu
Apart from this, Best Book of the Year Awards 2025 will be conferred upon:
- English: Manju Jaidka (Novel), Jasbir Chawla (Prose), Karamjit Singh (Research Critique)
- Hindi: Manju Sharda (Lekh), Vimla Guglani (Prose), Dr. Sangeeta Sharma Kundra (Ghazal), Anil Sharma Chintak (Poetry)
- Punjabi: Bhupinder Singh (Translation), Jagdish Singh Khushdil (Poetry), Gurdev Pal (Prose), Vinder Majhi (Ghazal)
- Urdu: Chaman Lal Sharma (Ghazal), Ali Abbas (Non-fiction)
Manuscript Awards 2025 will be given to Amitoz Singh, Jasmine Anand, Sunaina Jain (English); Dr. Vinod Kumar, Shiva Singh, Surender Pal (Hindi); Parminder Soni, Mandeep Sohal, Dr. Anju Bala (Punjabi); Dr. Zareen Fatima, Dr. Zulfiqar Ali (Urdu); and Vidhyadhar Kumar (Sanskrit).
Baal Purskar 2025:
- Hindi: Aarika Narula (Short Stories) & Ronak (Poetry) – Category-I (8-12 yrs), Kavya Jain (Poetry) – Category-II (12-15 yrs), Sandeep Behera (Poetry) – Category-III (15-18 yrs)
- English: Upkeerat Kaur (Short Stories) – Category-I, Vansh Sharma (Essay) – Category-II
- Urdu: Mohammad Idrak Raza (Short Stories) – Category-I
