Sahitya Akademi is India’s National Academy of Letters supported by government of India. Sahitya Akademi Award is one of the highest literary honor in India which annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty four major Indian languages that Sahiya Academi supports. Every year since its inception in 1954, the Sahitya Akademi awards prizes Aka. Awards-Brochureto the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the major Indian languages recognised by it. The award carries a monetary component (Rs. 50, 000) and a plaque. Sahitya Akademi gives twenty four awards to literary works in the languages it has recognised. These awards are given after an year-long process of scrutiny, discussion and selection. The awards are meant to recognise and promote excellence in Indian writing and expanding the very definition of Indian literature by acknowledging new trends and movements. They are a reflection of current tastes and contribute to the formation of an Indian sensibility.
The award for Dogri language started in 1960. No awards were in given in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1995, 1997 and 2008 in English language catagory.
| Year | Book | Author |
| 2007 | Disorderly Women (Novel) | Malathi Rao |
| 2006 | The Sari Shop (Novel) | Rupa Bajwa |
| 2004 | The Mammaries of the Welfare State (Novel) | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| 2003 | The Perishable Empire: Essays On Indian Writing In English (Essays) | Meenakshi Mukherjee |
| 2002 | A New World (Novel) | Amit Chaudhuri |
| 2001 | Rajaji : A Life (Biography) | Rajmohan Gandhi |
| 2000 | Cuckold (Novel) | Kiran Nagarkar |
| 1999 | The collected poems of A. K. Ramanujan (Poetry) | A. K. Ramanujan |
| 1998 | Final Solutions and Other Plays (Plays) | Mahesh Dattani |
| 1996 | Memories of Rain (Novel) | Sunetra Gupta |
| 1994 | Serendip (Poetry) | Dom Moraes |
| 1993 | After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism (Criticism) | G.N. Devy |
| 1992 | Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (Short stories) | Ruskin Bond |
| 1991 | The Trotter-Nama (Novel) | I. Allan Sealy |
| 1990 | That Long Silence (Novel) | Shashi Deshpande |
| 1989 | The Shadow Lines (Novel) | Amitav Ghosh |
| 1988 | The Golden Gate (Novel in verse) | Vikram Seth |
| 1987 | Trapfalls in the Sky (Poetry) | Shiv K. Kumar |
| 1986 | Rich Like Us (Novel) | Nayantara Sahgal |
| 1985 | Collected Poems (Poetry) | Kamala Das |
| 1984 | The Keeper of the Dead (Poetry) | Keki N. Daruwalla |
| 1983 | Latter-Day Psalms (Poetry) | Nissim Ezekiel |
| 1982 | The Last Labyrinth (Novel) | Arun Joshi |
| 1981 | Relationship (Poetry) | Jayant Mahapatra |
| 1980 | On the Mother, Vol. I & II (Biography) | K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar |
| 1979 | Inside the Haveli (Novel) | Rama Mehta |
| 1978 | Fire on the Mountain (Novel) | Anita Desai |
| 1977 | Azadi (Novel) | Chaman Nahal |
| 1976 | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1947) (Biography) | S. Gopal |
| 1975 | Scholar Extraordinary (Biography) | Nirad C. Chaudhury |
| 1971 | Morning Face (Novel) | Mulk Raj Anand |
| 1969 | An Artist in Life (Study of Tagore) | Niharranjan Ray |
| 1967 | Shadow from Ladakh (Novel) | Bhabani Bhattacharya |
| 1965 | The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin (Autobiography) | Verrier Elwin |
| 1963 | The Serpent and the Rope (Novel) | Raja Rao |
| 1960 | The Guide (Novel) | R.K. Narayan |
