Adamjee Literary Award

Adamjee Literary Award, also known as Adamjee Prize, is a literary award bestowed by the government of Pakistan. It is presented by the president. The award seeks to recognize those people who have made "meritorious contribution" to the literature of Pakistan.^[1][2] It was first introduced by Pakistan Writers' Guild in 1959.^[3] Muhammad Shahidullah served as the permanent chairman of the award.^[4]

List of winners

Year	Winners	Ref(s)
1959	Ghulam Abbas and Shaukat Siddiqui (Urdu) Syed Abdul Sattar and Roshan Yazdani (Bengali)	[5]
1960	Jamila Hashmi and Jamiluddin Aali	[6][7]
1961	Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (Deeva Tey Darya)	[8]
1962	Shamsur Rahman and Shahidullah Kaiser	[9][10]
1963	Abdullah Hussain (Udaas Naslein), Mahbubul Alam, Khadija Mastoor (Aangan)	[11][12][13]
1964	Ahsan Habib, Zahir Raihan	[14]
1965	Sufi Motahar Hossein	[15]
1966	Shawkat Osman, Abul Fazal and Farrukh Ahmad	[16][17][18]
1967	Khalid Akhtar, Ada Jafri and Abdul Quadir and Hasan Hafizur Rahman	[19][20][21][22]
1968	Mirza Adeeb, Kishwar Naheed and Sardar Jainuddin	[23]
1969	Syed Shamsul Haque and Rashid Karim	[24]
1970	Begum Akhtar Riazuddin (Dhanak Par Qadam)	[citation needed]
1978	Parveen Shakir	[25]
1979	Umrao Tariq	[26]
1980	Hasan Akbar Kamal	[27]
1982	Muhammad Izhar ul Haq (Deewar-e-Aab)
	Intizar Hussain	[28]
	Hasan Azizul Huq	[29]
	Abu Rushd	[30]
	Qateel Shifai
	Rahim Gul (Dastan Chor Aye)
	Munshi Raisuddin	[31]
—	Jilani Kamran	[32]