Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations. This is the second highest literary award of India, after Jnanpith Award. The awards given to Bengali writers for works in Bengali and English as well as for translations from Bengali literature are given below.

Sahitya Akademi Award winners

Following is the list of Akademi Award winners. No awards were conferred in 1960, 1968 and 1973.

Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar winners

Sahitya Akademi Youth Award winners

Bengali winners of Sahitya Akademi Award for English

Translations from Bengali literature

name="Jagran">[http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/national/general/5_1_4474606.html Hindi News |Hindi News Headlines | Hindi News Online – Yahoo! Jagran Hindi News] – Mahabharat ki Katha (treatise, Hindi tr. from Buddhadeb Basu) name="Jagranjosh">साहित्य अकादमी अनुवाद पुरस्कार वर्ष 2009 – Adhikar Aranyacho (novel, Konkani tr. from Mahashweta Devi) == Translations into Bengali == name="Muslims"/> – Kaifi Azmir Kabita (poetry, tr. from Urdu) name="Jagran"/> – Aamar Tomar Taar Katha (novel, tr. from Hindi) (Note: when this article was created in 2007, the list of awardees in various categories was taken from the official site of the Sahitya Akademi. The site has since been revamped and currently does not show any list of awardees; instead it shows a search option for awardees with specified search parameters. For the old version of the site, click here. It gives details about the main awards up to 2007 and translation prizes up to 2005.)