Sahitya Akademi : Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025
The Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025 by the Sahitya Akademi will be held on 14th November 2025 to promote and celebrate quality children’s literature across India’s diverse languages and cultures.Bal Sahitya Puraskar is a literary award instituted in 2010 to honour excellence in children’s literature across 24 Indian languages.The author must be Indian, and the book should be an original work for readers aged 9–16, published within the last five years before the award year.Sahitya Akademi is an autonomous body, formally inaugurated in 1954 and registered in 1956 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, to promote Indian literature. It gives 24 Literary Awards and 24 Translation Awards each year, along with the Bhasha Samman for contributions to unrecognised and classical/medieval languages. Sahitya Akademi Awards Started in 1954, these are annual awards for outstanding literary works in 22 scheduled languages, English, and Rajasthani. It is India’s 2nd-highest literary honour after the Jnanpith Award.
