Awardees for Sahitya Akademi Award 2018 (The award is given for books published between January 2011 and December 2015)
Essay: Jagdish Lachhani (Sindhi), Play: Rajen Toijamba (Manipuri), English: Mamang Dai for his novel The Black Hill, Hindi: Ramesh Kunta Megh for Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar, Sanskrit: Niranjan Mishra for his novel Gangaputravadanam, Malayalam: KP Ramanunni for Daivathinte Pusthakam, Punjabi: Nachhattar for his novel Slow Down,Poets: Udaya Narayana Singh (Maithili), Bhujanga Tudu (Santali), Shrikant Deshmukh (Marathi), Inqulab (Tamil) and Devipriya (Telugu), Short Stories: Autar Krishen Rahbar (Kashmiri), Shiv Mehta (Dogri), Gajanan Jog (Konkani), Gayatri Saraf (Odia) and Baig Ehsas (Urdu), Literary Criticism: Ramesh Kuntal Megh (Hindi), Urmi Ghanshyam Desai (Gujarati), TP Ashoka (Kannada), Bina Hangkhim (Nepali) and Neeraj Daiya (Rajasthani)