- Sri Pratim Baruah (Assamese),
- Sri Bijit Gwra Ramchiary (Bodo),
- Sri Rajinder Ranjha (Dogri),
- Sri Taro Sindik (Hindi),
- Ms. Nighat Sahiba (Kashmiri),
- Sri Amey Vishram Naik (Konkani),
- Sri Chandan Kumar Jha (Maithili),
- Sri. Kh. Krishnamohan Singha (Manipuri),
- Sri Saran Muskan (Nepali),
- Sri Suryasnata Tripathy (Odia),
- Sri Harman (Punjabi),
- Sri Hemchandra Belwal (Sanskrit),
- Ms. Maina Tudu (Santali),
- Ms. Rekha Sachdev Pohani (Sindhi),
- Ms. J. Jayabharathi (Tamil)
- Ms. Mercy Margaret (Telugu).
- Sri Rahul Kosambi is awarded for his essay.
short stories
- Sri Shamik Ghosh (Bengali),
- Sri Ram Mori (Gujarati),
- Ms. Shanthi K. Appana (Kannada),
- Ms. Aswathy Sasikumar (Malayalam)
- Sri Ummed Dhaniya (Rajasthani).
Biographies
- Sri Manu S. Pillai (English)
- Sri Rasheed Ashraf Khan (Urdu)