Sahitya Akademi – Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025 | 13 Nov 2025

Source: PIB 

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. 

• To honour Excellence: Bal Sahitya Puraskar is a literary award instituted in 2010 to honour excellence in children’s literature across 24 Indian languages. 
• Eligibility: 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 

• About: It is an autonomous body, formally inaugurated in 1954 and registered in 1956 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, to promote Indian literature. 
• Awards & Honours: 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.