Adamjee Literary Award
Pakistan's literary prize
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Adamjee Literary Award, also known as Adamjee Prize, is a literary award bestowed by the government of Pakistan. It is presented by the president. The award seeks to recognize those people who have made "meritorious contribution" to the literature of Pakistan.[1][2] It was first introduced by Pakistan Writers' Guild in 1959.[3] Muhammad Shahidullah served as the permanent chairman of the award.[4]
List of winners
| Year | Winners | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Ghulam Abbas and Shaukat Siddiqui (Urdu) Syed Abdul Sattar and Roshan Yazdani (Bengali) | [5] |
| 1960 | Jamila Hashmi and Jamiluddin Aali | [6][7] |
| 1961 | Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (Deeva Tey Darya) | [8] |
| 1962 | Shamsur Rahman and Shahidullah Kaiser | [9][10] |
| 1963 | Abdullah Hussain (Udaas Naslein), Mahbubul Alam, Khadija Mastoor (Aangan) | [11][12][13] |
| 1964 | Ahsan Habib, Zahir Raihan | [14] |
| 1965 | Sufi Motahar Hossein | [15] |
| 1966 | Shawkat Osman, Abul Fazal and Farrukh Ahmad | [16][17][18] |
| 1967 | Khalid Akhtar, Ada Jafri and Abdul Quadir and Hasan Hafizur Rahman | [19][20][21][22] |
| 1968 | Mirza Adeeb, Kishwar Naheed and Sardar Jainuddin | [23] |
| 1969 | Syed Shamsul Haque and Rashid Karim | [24] |
| 1970 | Begum Akhtar Riazuddin (Dhanak Par Qadam) | [citation needed] |
| 1978 | Parveen Shakir | [25] |
| 1979 | Umrao Tariq | [26] |
| 1980 | Hasan Akbar Kamal | [27] |
| 1982 | Muhammad Izhar ul Haq (Deewar-e-Aab) | |
| Intizar Hussain | [28] | |
| Hasan Azizul Huq | [29] | |
| Abu Rushd | [30] | |
| Qateel Shifai | ||
| Rahim Gul (Dastan Chor Aye) | ||
| Munshi Raisuddin | [31] | |
| N/a | Jilani Kamran | [32] |