Gangadhar National Award For Poetry

Gangadhar National Award For Poetry is a literary award given in the field of literature for poetry by Sambalpur University. It is named after Gangadhar Meher. First award was given to Ali Sardar Jafri in the year 1991. 31 poets have been awarded on various Indian languages until now.

Gangadhar National Award For Poetry
Awarded for	Significant contribution in the field of Literature (poetry).
Date	Foundation day of Sambalpur University
Location	Sambalpur University, Odisha
Country	India
Presented by	Sambalpur University
Reward(s)	Cash prize of Rs 1,00,000, angavastra, citation, a memento and a copy of Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works (An anthology of Gangadhar Meher's Poetry in English translation)
First award	1991
Final award	2021
Highlights
First winner	Ali Sardar Jafri (1991)
Latest winner	Pratibha Satpathy (2025)
Total awarded	31

History

The award was first given in 1991 but the procedure of giving the award was started in 1989.

Procedure

There is a delay of one year due to a long process of choosing an awardee; if the awardee won the prize for 2019 then he gets his award in 2021, and the award of 2017 was given in 2019. It is awarded on the celebration day of Sambalpur University Foundation Day, which is celebrated every year in January.

Cash prize of Rs 1,00,000, angavastra, citation, a memento and a copy of Gangadhar Meher: Selected Works (An anthology of Gangadhar Meher's Poetry in English translation) is given to receipt of Gangadhar National Award.^[1][2]

Awardees

Year of award announced	Name of the awardee (with year of award given)[note 1]	Language	Foundation day
1991	Ali Sardar Jafri (1993)	Urdu	26th
1992	Nabakanta Barua (1994)	Assamese	27th
1993	Shakti Chattopadhyay (1995)	Bengali	28th
1994	Jayanta Mahapatra (1996)	English/Odia	29th
1995	Kedarnath Singh (1997)	Hindi	30th
1996	Ayyappa Paniker (1998)	Malayalam	31st
1997	Sitakant Mahapatra (1999)	Odia	32nd
1998	Nirupama Kaur (2000)	Punjabi	33rd
1999	Vinda Karandikar (2001)	Marathi	34th
2000	Ramakanta Rath (2002)	Odia	35th
2001	K. Satchidanandan (2003)	Malayalam	36th
2002	Shankha Ghosh (2004)	Bengali	37th
2003	Sitanshu Yashaschandra (2005)	Gujarati	38th
2004	Dilip Chitre (2006)	Marathi	39th
2005	Gulzar (2007)	Urdu	40th
2006	Nilmani Phookan Jr (2008)	Assamese	41st
2007	Haraprasad Das (2009)	Odia	42nd
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (2010)	Urdu	43rd
2009	Surjit Patar (2011)	Punjabi	44th
2010	Rajendra Kishore Panda (2012)	Odia	45th
2011	Balraj Komal (2013)	Urdu	46th
2012	Vasdev Mohi (2014)	Sindhi	47th[3]
2013	Soubhagya Kumar Misra (2015)	Odia	48th
2014	Subodh Sarkar (2016)[4][5]	Bengali	49th
2015	Leeladhar Jagudi (2017)[6]	Hindi	50th
2016	K Siva Reddy (2018)	Telugu	51st
2017	Chandrashekhara Kambara (2019)[7]	Kannada	52nd
2018	Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari (2020)[8][9][10]	Hindi[11][12]	53rd[13][14]
2019	Sheen Kaaf Nizam (2021)[15]	Urdu	54th
2020	Kamal Vora (2022)[16]	Gujarati	55th
2021	K. G. Sankara Pillai (2023)	Malayalam	56th
2022	Anis Uz Zaman (2024)	Assamese[17]	57th
2023	Pratibha Satpathy (2025)	Odia[18]	58th