Sahitya Akademi Translation Award

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literary award translation award

The Sahitya Akademi Translation Award is an annual Indian literary honor recognizing outstanding translations of works into the 24 recognized Indian languages.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation	1
Sahitya Akademi Translation Award canonical	1
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7121892 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Sahitya Akademi Translation Award
Context triple: [Sahitya Akademi, sponsors, Sahitya Akademi Translation Award]

A. Tagore Literacy Prize
The Tagore Literacy Prize is a literary award that honors outstanding works and contributions promoting literature, education, and social change in the spirit of Rabindranath Tagore.
B. Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of India’s most prestigious literary honors, presented annually to writers for outstanding works in the country’s various recognized languages.
C. PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is a prestigious literary honor awarded by PEN America to recognize a translator’s lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to the art of literary translation.
D. Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is the highest honor conferred by India’s National Academy of Letters to distinguished writers for their outstanding contribution to literature.
E. PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is a literary prize that honors outstanding translations of poetry into English, recognizing both the translator’s craft and the work’s contribution to international literary exchange.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sahitya Akademi Translation Award
Target entity description: The Sahitya Akademi Translation Award is an annual Indian literary honor recognizing outstanding translations of works into the 24 recognized Indian languages.

A. Tagore Literacy Prize
The Tagore Literacy Prize is a literary award that honors outstanding works and contributions promoting literature, education, and social change in the spirit of Rabindranath Tagore.
B. Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of India’s most prestigious literary honors, presented annually to writers for outstanding works in the country’s various recognized languages.
C. PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is a prestigious literary honor awarded by PEN America to recognize a translator’s lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to the art of literary translation.
D. Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
The Sahitya Akademi Fellowship is the highest honor conferred by India’s National Academy of Letters to distinguished writers for their outstanding contribution to literature.
E. PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is a literary prize that honors outstanding translations of poetry into English, recognizing both the translator’s craft and the work’s contribution to international literary exchange.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary award ⓘ translation award ⓘ
administeredBy	Sahitya Akademi ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation ⓘ linked to: Sahitya Akademi Translation Award
awardingBody	Sahitya Akademi ⓘ
basedIn	New Delhi ⓘ linked to: New Delhi, India
country	India ⓘ
eligibility	authors of translated works ⓘ translators ⓘ
field	literature ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	all literary genres ⓘ
hasPart	cash prize ⓘ citation ⓘ
inception	1989 ⓘ
languagesRecognized	Assamese ⓘ Bengali ⓘ Bodo ⓘ Dogri ⓘ English ⓘ Gujarati ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Kannada ⓘ Kashmiri ⓘ linked to: Kashmiri language Konkani ⓘ Maithili ⓘ Malayalam ⓘ Manipuri ⓘ Marathi ⓘ linked to: Marathi language Nepali ⓘ Odia ⓘ Punjabi ⓘ linked to: Punjabi language Rajasthani ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ Santali ⓘ linked to: Santhali Sindhi ⓘ Tamil ⓘ Telugu ⓘ Urdu ⓘ linked to: Urdu language
numberOfLanguages	24 ⓘ
objective	to encourage high-quality translation in India ⓘ to promote literary exchange among Indian languages ⓘ
presentedBy	Sahitya Akademi ⓘ
purpose	to recognize outstanding translations of literary works ⓘ
region	India ⓘ
relatedTo	Sahitya Akademi Award ⓘ Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar ⓘ Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar ⓘ linked to: Yuva Puraskar
scope	translations into Indian languages ⓘ
sponsor	Sahitya Akademi ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sahitya Akademi → sponsors → Sahitya Akademi Translation Award ⓘ

Dilip Chitre → awardReceived → Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize ⓘ

linked to: Sahitya Akademi Translation Award

Sahitya Akademi Translation Award → alsoKnownAs → Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation ⓘ