Saraswati Samman

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Saraswati Samman is a prestigious Indian literary award presented annually for outstanding prose or poetry works in any of the major Indian languages.

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Saraswati Samman canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary award
awardCategory literary award in India
awardedBy K. K. Birla Foundation
awardedForLanguages Assamese
Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
Malayalam
Marathi
Odia
Punjabi
Rajasthani
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
country India
domain arts and culture
eligibility authors writing in Indian languages
eligibleWorkType book
field literature
firstAwarded 1991
frequency annual
genre poetry
prose
hasAwardType individual award
inception 1991
includes citation
plaque
languageScope major Indian languages
monetaryComponent cash prize
namedAfter Saraswati
presentedFor outstanding literary work
poetry
prose
works in major Indian languages
region India
relativeStanding one of the highest literary awards in India
scope national
selectionCriteria outstanding literary merit
selectionProcess jury selection
sponsor K. K. Birla Foundation
sponsoredBy private foundation
status active
typicalRecipient author
poet

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S. L. Bhyrappa awardReceived Saraswati Samman