Bal Sahitya Purashkar 2025

• 13 Nov 2025
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The Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025, for recognizing excellence in children's literature, will take place on Friday, 14 November, 2025, at the Triveni Auditorium on Tansen Marg in New Delhi. The President of the Akademi, Madhav Kaushik, will present the awards.

Renowned Gujarati writer Varsha Das will attend the event as the Chief Guest while Kumud Sharma, the Vice President of the Akademi, will deliver the vote of thanks. The welcome address will be given by Pallavi Prashant Holkar, the Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi.

List of Awarded Books and Awardees of Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025

According to Press Information Bureau (PIB), the awarded books and the awardees are: 

• Assamese – Mainaahantar Padya (poetry), Surendra Mohan Das; 

• Bengali – Ekhono Gaye Kanta Daye (stories), Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay; 

• Bodo – Khanthi Bwswn Arw Akhu Danai (stories), Binay Kumar Brahma; 

• Dogri – Nanhi Tor (poetry), P.L. Parihar ‘Shauq’; 

• English – Dakshin : South Indian Myths and Fables Retold (stories), Nitin Kushalappa MP;

• Gujarati – Tinchak (poetry), Kirtida Brahmbhatt; 

• Hindi – Ek Batey Barah (non-fiction & memoir), Susheel Shukla; 

• Kannada – Notebook (short stories), K. Shivalingappa Handihal; 

• Kashmiri – Shure Te Tchure Gyush (short stories), Izhar Mubashir; 

• Konkani – Belabaicho Shanker Ani Heir Kanyo (stories), Nayana Adarkar; 

• Maithili - Chukka (short stories), Munni Kamat; 

• Malayalam - Penguinukalude Vankaravil (novel), Sreejith Moothedath; 

• Manipuri – Angangshing- Gee Shannabungshida (play), Shanto M.; 

• Marathi – Abhaimaya (poetry), Suresh Govindrao Sawant; 

• Nepali – Shanti Van (novel), Sangmu Lepcha; 

• Odia – Kete Phula Phutichi (poetry), Rajakishore Parhi; 

• Punjabi – Jaddu Patta (novel), Pali Khadim (Amrit Pal Singh); 

• Rajasthani – Pankheruv Ni Peeda (play), Bhogilal Patidar; 

• Sanskrit – Balvisvam  (poetry), Preeti R. Pujara; 

• Santali – Sona Miru-ag Sandesh (poetry), Haralal Murmu; 

• Sindhi - Asmani Pari (poetry), Heena Agnani ‘Heer'; 

• Tamil – Ottrai Siragu Oviya (novel), Vishnupuram Sarvanan; 

• Telugu – Kaburla Devatha (story), Gangisetty Sivakumar; 

• Urdu – Qaumi Sitare (articles), Ghazanfar Iqbal.

Each awardee shall receive a cheque amounting to Rs. 50,000 along with a bronze plaque in recognition of their work. On 15 November, an Awardee’s Meet will take place in auditorium of the Akademi in its Ravindra Bhawan building located at Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi. The Meet will be chaired by Vice President of the Akademi, Kumud Sharma, and the awardees shall discuss their creative experiences with everyone at the Meet.

Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB)