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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary award, which after the Jnanpith, is the most prestigious Indian literary award given each year to writers for the most outstanding books of literary merit published in Indian languages, which are recognized by the Sahitya Akademi. The prize money given for the inaugural award by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954 was ₹ 5,000 (US$76.26) and it has been raised six times since such that from 2009 it is worth ₹ 1,00,000 (US$1,525). The prize has been awarded each year since 1979-80 and has been given to over 1,000 writers.However, as of 2015 the award has been returned by many writers for various reasons. As many as 40 prominent writers have also announced their returning of the award in protest at the \"rising intolerance in India\" under its present government. The first to return the award was Uday Prakash, a Hindi writer, on 4 September 2015 in protest at the murder of M M Kalburgi, a Kannada Sahitya Akademi award winner. Following Prakash, prominent writers including Nayantara Sahgal, Ashok Vajpeyi and women veteran writers Krishna Sobti and Shashi Deshpande have also returned their awards.Joining the chorus, many writers announced their returning of the award in protest at the murder of Kalburgi as well as the Dadri incident in Greater Noida, where a Muslim man was lynched by a mob after hearing rumors of him eating and storing beef. Among others, Ajmer Aulakh, Aman Sethi, Ganesh Devi, Kum Veerabhadrappa and Shashi Deshpande have publicly announced their return of the award. To show their condemnation Deshpande, K Satchidanandan, PK Parakkadvu and Aravind Malagatti have also resigned their posts at the Sahitya Akademi institution.Expressing solidarity and condemning the killings of writers, the Sahitya Akademi, admonished the protesters to take back their awards. Mandakrata Sen, Bengali poet, who returned the Sahitya Akademi award in early October 2015 was contacted by the authorities of Sahitya Akademi requesting that she take the award back. However, she stood by her decision and announced that she would not take it back."@en }

• List_of_writers_who_have_returned_the_Sahitya_Akademi_Award abstract "The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary award, which after the Jnanpith, is the most prestigious Indian literary award given each year to writers for the most outstanding books of literary merit published in Indian languages, which are recognized by the Sahitya Akademi. The prize money given for the inaugural award by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954 was ₹ 5,000 (US$76.26) and it has been raised six times since such that from 2009 it is worth ₹ 1,00,000 (US$1,525). The prize has been awarded each year since 1979-80 and has been given to over 1,000 writers.However, as of 2015 the award has been returned by many writers for various reasons. As many as 40 prominent writers have also announced their returning of the award in protest at the \"rising intolerance in India\" under its present government. The first to return the award was Uday Prakash, a Hindi writer, on 4 September 2015 in protest at the murder of M M Kalburgi, a Kannada Sahitya Akademi award winner. Following Prakash, prominent writers including Nayantara Sahgal, Ashok Vajpeyi and women veteran writers Krishna Sobti and Shashi Deshpande have also returned their awards.Joining the chorus, many writers announced their returning of the award in protest at the murder of Kalburgi as well as the Dadri incident in Greater Noida, where a Muslim man was lynched by a mob after hearing rumors of him eating and storing beef. Among others, Ajmer Aulakh, Aman Sethi, Ganesh Devi, Kum Veerabhadrappa and Shashi Deshpande have publicly announced their return of the award. To show their condemnation Deshpande, K Satchidanandan, PK Parakkadvu and Aravind Malagatti have also resigned their posts at the Sahitya Akademi institution.Expressing solidarity and condemning the killings of writers, the Sahitya Akademi, admonished the protesters to take back their awards. Mandakrata Sen, Bengali poet, who returned the Sahitya Akademi award in early October 2015 was contacted by the authorities of Sahitya Akademi requesting that she take the award back. However, she stood by her decision and announced that she would not take it back.".