The prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2019 in the Hindi language has been announced for Nand Kishore Acharya of Bikaner (Rajasthan) for his poetry collection 'Peelte Apne Ko'.
Rajasthan's literatteur Ramswaroop Kisan was selected for the Sahitya Academy Awards for the year 2019 for Rajasthani Language.