Awards

Awards, Honors, and Philanthropic Gestures

Throughout his sixty-year literary and cultural career, A.J. Uttam received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his unique contributions.

Remarkably, Uttam often donated the cash awards he received to individuals and institutions dedicated to the service of Sindhi language and literature, exemplifying his selflessness and commitment to the collective good.

Literary Excellence

Awards & Honors

1970

Indo-Soviet Friendship Award

Rs. 5,000 and trip to Russia, 1970

Contribution: For outstanding contributions

Awarding Body: Government of India

1974

Jiya Sindhi Sabha Award

Rs. 5,000, 1974

Contribution: For literary contributions

Awarding Body: Jiya Sindhi Sabha

1991

Priyadarshini Award

Rs. 10,000, 1991

Work: For literary excellence

Awarding Body: Priyadarshini Sabha

1991, 2002

Akhil Bharat Sindhi Boli Ain Sahit Sabha Award

Rs. 10,000, 1991; Rs. 25,000, 2002

Contribution: For literary contributions

Awarding Body: Akhil Bharat Sindhi Boli Ain Sahit Sabha

1991

Ram Buxani Foundation Award

Rs. 5,000, 1991

Work: For literary contributions

Awarding Body: Ram Buxani Foundation

1986

Special Shield by Progressive Writers Association at the Golden Jubilee Meet, Lucknow

1986

Contribution: For literary contributions

Awarding Body: Progressive Writers Association

1994

Gold Medal by Maruee Organization, Delhi

1994

Work: For literary contributions

Awarding Body: Maruee Organization, Delhi

1999

Honored by Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani at the Indian Institute of Sindhology, Gandhidham

1999

Work: For literary and social contributions

Awarding Body: Indian Institute of Sindhology, Gandhidham

Literary Excellence

Honorees & Recipients

Recipient for year 2016

Mr. Vasdev Mohi

Vasdev Mohi is an eminent Sindhi poet, critic and short story writer. He has enriched Sindhi poetry with clarity of expression and profundity of thought.

Recipient for year 2015

Mr. Mohan Gehani

Mohan Gehani is a noted Sindhi scholar, playwright, translator and poet. Born in Karachi (Sind) on January 20, 1938, he belongs to a select community of writers who have lived through the Partition of India.

Recipient for year 2014

Mr. Lakhmichand Khilani

Lakhmichand Bhiryomal Khilani was born at Sukkur (Sindh) situated on the banks of river Sindhu on 2nd October 1935. He was a voracious reader from childhood. Soon he began writing poetry which was of course by a child, for children, and on children.

Recipient for year 2013

Shrimati Kala Prakash

Shrimati Kala Prakash born in 1934 in Karachi (now in Pakistan) started writing short stories in Sindhi in 1953, when her first story 'Dohi Bedohi' was published in Naeen Duniya, a prominent literary monthly published from Mumbai, and continues to write today.

Recipient for year 2012

Shri Arjan Hasid

Shri Arjan Jethanand Tanwani, popularly known as Arjan Hasid in Literature, was born on 7 January, 1930 in Karachi. Shri Hasid is the senior most and prominent Sindhi poet of India and Sindh.

Recipient for year 2011

Shri Vishnu Bhatia

Born on 21st April 1941 at Karachi, Shri Vishnu Bhatia is an established creative writer and he has about 15 books, including short stories and novels at his credit.

Recipient for year 2010

Shri Goverdhan Mahaboobani "Bharati"

He was born on 13th Jan 1929. Bharati is eminent Poet Writer and Dramatist. He is a unique person who has contributed to Sindhi Films through his Lyrics a lot. He was close associate of C. Arjun prominent Sindhi Music Director.

Recipient for year 2009

Dr. Arjan Sikayal

Born on 5th November, 1919 at Sadhuja, Distt. Nawabshah Sindh (now in Pakistan), Dr. Arjan Detaram Nathani is known as Dr. Arjan Sikayal in field of Literature. He is a multifaceted personality - he is a doctor, a writer, a poet and a journalist.

Recipient for year 2008

Dr. Moti Prakash

Dr. Moti Prakash migrated to India in the wake of partition of the country, when he was 16, Uprooted from his native land and faced with grave economic problem. (10 members in the family)- he started his life humbly in a room in a chawl, with no financial assistance from any source.

Recipient for year 2007

Prabhu 'Wafa'

In the year 1930, when he was hardly fifteen, Prabhu 'Wafa' read his ghazal in a Mushaira in his native town Larkana (Sindh).

Recipient for year 2006

Kirat Babani

The flames of First World War were just weakening and the fight for independence in India was simmering slowly and gradually, when a nonedescript village Moro Lakho of Dist. Nawabshah, Sindh, witnessed birth of a boy on January 3, 1922, in the house of Choithram Babani, who would become a celebrated Sindhi writer, named Kirat Babani.