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Who received the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Award for English for their novel "Spirit Nights"?

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Easterine Kire

The Sahitya Akademi Awards 2024 (announced in December 2024) were given in 21 languages. In the English category the award went to Easterine Kire, the Naga writer from Nagaland, for her novel Spirit Nights.

Kire writes about Naga history, culture and folklore; her other works include A Terrible Matriarchy and When the River Sleeps.

Arundhati Roy (who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 and declined it), Amitav Ghosh (Sahitya Akademi 1989, Jnanpith 2018) and Jhumpa Lahiri did not receive the 2024 English award.

Hence, the answer is Easterine Kire.

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