For the Sahitya Akademi Award of a given year, the book must have been published

in the year immediately preceding the awardCorrect answerYour answerwithin the five years before the year immediately preceding the awardCorrect answerYour answerwithin ten years of the awardCorrect answerYour answerat any time, provided the author is aliveCorrect answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B

Correct answer: B

The rules set a five-year window, ending with the year before the year preceding the award.
The Akademi's own illustration makes this concrete: for the award of 2004, books published between 1998 and 2002 would be considered.
A one-year window would leave no time for a book to be read and judged, which is why the rule allows the gap it does.

Worth noting

The window exists because literary reputation takes a few years to settle. Working through the Akademi's illustration once is faster than memorising the rule as a sentence.

Concept: The publication window
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For the Sahitya Akademi Award of a given year, the book must have been published

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