Gangadhar National Award For Poetry is a literary award given in the field of literature for poetry by Sambalpur University. It is named after Gangadhar Meher. First award was given to Ali Sardar Jafri in the year 1991. 33 poets have been awarded on various Indian languages until now.
History The award was first given in 1991 but the procedure of giving the award was started in 1989.
Procedure There is a delay of one year due to a long process of choosing an awardee; if the awardee won the prize for 2019 then he gets his award in 2021, and the award of 2017 was given in 2019. It is awarded on the celebration day of Sambalpur University Foundation Day, which is celebrated every year in January.
Cash prize of Rs 1,00,000, angavastra, citation, a memento and a copy of Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works (An anthology of Gangadhar Meher's Poetry in English translation) is given to receipt of Gangadhar National Award.
Awardees
Year of award announced Name of the awardee (with year of award given)The award is given every year on the 1st week of January on the foundation day of Sambalpur UniversityLanguageFoundation day1991Ali Sardar Jafri (1993)Urdu26th1992Nabakanta Barua (1994)Assamese27th1993Shakti Chattopadhyay (1995)Bengali28th1994Jayanta Mahapatra (1996)English/Odia29th1995Kedarnath Singh (1997)Hindi30th1996Ayyappa Paniker (1998)Malayalam31st1997Sitakant Mahapatra (1999)Odia32nd1998Nirupama Kaur (2000)Punjabi33rd1999Vinda Karandikar (2001)Marathi34th2000Ramakanta Rath (2002)Odia35th2001K. Satchidanandan (2003)Malayalam36th2002Shankha Ghosh (2004)Bengali37th2003Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2005)Gujarati38th2004Dilip Chitre (2006)Marathi39th2005Gulzar (2007)Urdu40th2006Nilmani Phookan Jr (2008)Assamese41st2007Haraprasad Das (2009)Odia42nd2008Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (2010)Urdu43rd2009Surjit Patar (2011)Punjabi44th2010Rajendra Kishore Panda (2012)Odia45th2011Balraj Komal (2013)Urdu46th2012Vasdev Mohi (2014)Sindhi47th2013Soubhagya Kumar Misra (2015)Odia48th2014Subodh Sarkar (2016)Bengali49th2015Leeladhar Jagudi (2017)Hindi50th2016K Siva Reddy (2018)Telugu51st2017Chandrashekhara Kambara (2019)Kannada52nd2018Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (2020)Hindi53rd2019Sheen Kaaf Nizam (2021)Urdu54th2020Kamal Vora (2022)Gujarati55th2021K. G. Sankara Pillai (2023)Malayalam56th2022Anis Uz Zaman (2024)Assamese57th2023Pratibha Satpathy (2025)Odia58th
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