Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil language

1955-1975	R. P. Sethu Pillai (1955) · Kalki Krishnamurthy (1956) · C. Rajagopalachari (1958) · Mu. Varadarajan (1961) · Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (1962) · Akilan (1963) · P. Sri Acharya (1965) · Ma. Po. Si. (1966) · K. V. Jagannathan (1967) · A. Srinivasa Raghavan (1968) · Bharatidasan (1969) · Ku. Alagirisami (1970) · Na. Parthasarathy (1971) · D. Jayakanthan (1972) · Rajam Krishnan (1973) · K. D. Thirunavukkarasu (1974) · R. Dhandayudham (1975) ·
1976-2000	Indira Parthasarathy (1977) · Vallikannan (1978) · Thi.Janakiraman (1979) · Kannadasan (1980) · M. Ramalingam (1981) · B. S. Ramaiya (1982) · T. M. Chidambara Ragunathan (1983) · Lakshmi Thiripurasundari (1984) · A. S. Gnanasambandan (1985) · Ka. Naa. Subramaniam (1986) · Aadhavan Sundaram (1987) · V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1988) · La Sa Ra (1989) · Su. Samuthiram (1990) · Ki. Rajanarayanan (1991) · Kovi. Manisekaran (1992) · M. V. Venkatram (1993) · Ponneelan (1994) · Prapanchan (1995) · Ashoka Mitran (1996) · Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1997) · Sa. Kandasamy (1998) · S. Abdul Rahman (1999) · Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran (2000)
2001-present	C. S. Chellappa (2001) · Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2002) · Vairamuthu (2003) · Tamilanban (2004) · G. Thilakavathi (2005) · Mu. Metha (2006) · Neela Padmanabhan (2007) Melanmai Ponnusamy (2008) · Puviarasu (2009) · Nanjil Nadan (2010) ·