Gangadhar National Award For Poetry


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 is given to receipt of Gangadhar National Award.

Awardees

Year of award announcedName of the awardee LanguageFoundation day
1991Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu26th
1992Nabakanta Barua Assamese27th
1993Shakti Chattopadhyay Bengali28th
1994Jayanta Mahapatra English/Odia29th
1995Kedarnath Singh Hindi30th
1996Ayyappa Paniker Malayalam31st
1997Sitakant Mahapatra Odia32nd
1998Nirupama Kaur Punjabi33rd
1999Vinda Karandikar Marathi34th
2000Ramakanta Rath Odia35th
2001K. Satchidanandan Malayalam36th
2002Shankha Ghosh Bengali37th
2003Sitanshu Yashaschandra Gujarati38th
2004Dilip Chitre Marathi39th
2005Gulzar Urdu40th
2006Nilmani Phookan Jr Assamese41st
2007Haraprasad Das Odia42nd
2008Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Urdu43rd
2009Surjit Patar Punjabi44th
2010Rajendra Kishore Panda Odia45th
2011Balraj Komal Urdu46th
2012Vasdev Mohi Sindhi47th
2013Soubhagya Kumar Misra Odia48th
2014Subodh Sarkar Bengali49th
2015Leeladhar Jagudi Hindi50th
2016K Siva Reddy Telugu51st
2017Chandrashekhara Kambara Kannada52nd
2018Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari Hindi53rd
2019Sheen Kaaf Nizam Urdu54th
2020Kamal Vora Gujarati55th
2021K. G. Sankara Pillai Malayalam56th
2022Anis Uz Zaman Assamese57th
2023Pratibha Satpathy Odia58th