Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize
The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize is a literary honour in India conferred annually to published works of Indian authors in novel, short stories, poetry and drama, originally written in any of Indian official languages and dialects, but translated to English. It was founded in 2018 by US-based independent and non-profit publishing house Maitreya Publishing Foundation as a platform for world peace, literature, art, education and human rights. The winners receive USD 10,000 as the prize money along with a Rabindranath Tagore statuette while the shortlisted authors each receive USD 500.
The 2019 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize in literature was awarded to Rana Dasgupta for the literary novel “Solo". Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 for Social Achievement was awarded to Yohei Sasakawa, for his efforts to uproot leprosy and his great contribution to world peace, and to Madame President of Taiwan, Ms. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwanese people, as being a Beacon of Democracy, Human Rights and Freedom.
In 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Prize for Social Achievement was conferred to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, the late Sultan of Oman and The People of Oman, for his lifelong efforts and legacy as a peacemaker, his Majesty’s velvety diplomatic mediation of complex domestic and world affairs resulting in successful peaceful resolutions and to the world-renowned dancer choreographer Sandip Soparrkar for his worldwide initiative 'Dance for a Cause' where he uses dance, music and drama to highlight various world social issues. Raj Kamal Jha was announced the winner of the Tagore Literary Prize for his novel – The City and the Sea. In 2020, it was announced that the prizes for 2021 and 2022 would be merged, due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winners and shortlisted authors
The winners and shortlisted authors of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize are.| Year | Author | Title |
| 2018 | - | - |
| 2018 | Kabir | One Hundred Poems of Kabir |
| 2018 | Vinita Agrawal | The Silk of Hunger |
| 2018 | Maj. Gen. G.D. Bakshi | Dances with the Cranes |
| 2018 | Tishani Doshi | Pleasure Seekers |
| 2018 | Amitav Ghosh | The Ibis Trilogy |
| 2018 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Unaccustomed Earth |
| 2018 | Anita Nair | The Lilac House |
| 2018 | Daya Pawar | Kondwada |
| 2018 | Kiriti Sengupta | Healing Waters Floating Lamps |
| 2018 | Amish Tripathi | Shiva Trilogy – |
| 2019 | - | - |
| 2019 | Rana Dasgupta | Solo |
| 2019 | Amit Chaudhuri | The Immortals |
| 2019 | K. Madavane | To Die in Benares |
| 2019 | Jayanta Mahapatra | Hesitant Light |
| 2019 | Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others |
| 2019 | Manoj Pandey | The Legacy of Nothing |
| 2019 | Kala Ramesh | Beyond the Horizon Beyond |
| 2019 | Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi | The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay |
| 2019 | Menka Shivdasani | Frazil |
| 2019 | Jeet Thayil | The Book of Chocolate Saints |
| 2020 | - | - |
| 2020 | Raj Kamal Jha | The City and the Sea |
| 2020 | Amitav Ghosh | Gun Island literary |
| 2020 | Nirmala Govindarajan | Taboo |
| 2020 | Ranjit Hoskote | Jonahwhale |
| 2020 | Sachin Kundalkar translated from Marathi into English by Jerry Pinto | Cobalt blue |
| 2020 | Varun Thomas Mathew | The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay |
| 2020 | Sonnet Mondal | Karmic Chant |
| 2020 | Rochelle Potkar | Paper Asylum |
| 2020 | Bijoya Sawian | Shadow Men |
| 2020 | Sudeep Sen | EroText |
Tagore Prize for Social Achievements
It is awarded annually along with the literary award to recognise those who have made a positive and lasting impact on the society.| Year | Awarded to |
| 2018 | Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation |
| 2019 | Yohei Sasakawa and Ms. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwanese people |
| 2020 | His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said and the People of Oman and Sandip Soparrkar a renowned Indian dancer choreographer |