who has been appointed as president of gujarat sahitya academy
Sahitya Akademi Subsequent presidents of the Sahitya Akademi have included S. Radhakrishnan (1958) who succeeded Jawaharlal Nehru after serving as the Vice-President along with him; Zakir Hussain (1963); Suniti Kumar Chatterjee (1967); K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1969, and re-elected in 1973); Umashankar Joshi (1978); Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1983); U. R. Ananthamurthy (1993); Ramakanta Rath (1998); and Gopi Chand Narang (2003).[6] Sunil Gangopadhyay was elected president in 2008,[7] and held office until his death in 2012.[8] The current President of the Akademi is Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari. The Akademi has never elected a female president in its sixty-five years of existence, although in 2003, Mahasweta Devi unsuccessfully contested against Gopi Chand Narang for the position.[6]