Adamjee Literary Award

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)
1959Ghulam Abbas and Shaukat Siddiqui (Urdu)
Syed Abdul Sattar and Roshan Yazdani (Bengali)		[5]
1960Jamila Hashmi and Jamiluddin Aali[6][7]
1961Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (Deeva Tey Darya)[8]
1962Shamsur Rahman and Shahidullah Kaiser[9][10]
1963Abdullah Hussain (Udaas Naslein), Mahbubul Alam, Khadija Mastoor (Aangan)[11][12][13]
1964Ahsan Habib, Zahir Raihan[14]
1965Sufi Motahar Hossein[15]
1966Shawkat Osman, Abul Fazal and Farrukh Ahmad[16][17][18]
1967Khalid Akhtar, Ada Jafri and Abdul Quadir and Hasan Hafizur Rahman[19][20][21][22]
1968Mirza Adeeb, Kishwar Naheed and Sardar Jainuddin[23]
1969Syed Shamsul Haque and Rashid Karim[24]
1970Begum Akhtar Riazuddin (Dhanak Par Qadam)
1978Parveen Shakir[25]
1979Umrao Tariq[26]
1980Hasan Akbar Kamal[27]
1982Muhammad 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]
—Jilani Kamran[32]

References
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  30. "Prof Abu Rushd passes away". The Daily Star. 2010-02-25. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
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