Who among the following authors won the ‘Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar’ 2022…

Concept: The Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, instituted in 2011, is an annual prize for an outstanding book by a young Indian author — the writer must be 35 years or below on 1 January of the award year. It is conferred separately in each of the 24 languages recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, and carries an engraved copper plaque and a cash prize of ₹50,000.

Because the prize is awarded once per language per year, any "who won it in year Y in language L" question is settled by reading a single cell of the awarding body's own record — the language entry in that year's official announcement. Two distinctions decide such items: the year (the same language throws up different winners in consecutive years) and the difference between being recommended on the shortlist and being selected by the jury.

Application: The Sahitya Akademi's official Yuva Puraskar 2022 press release prints six recommended Sindhi books and then records the jury's decision verbatim: "Sindhyat Ji Surhaani (Poetry) by Heena Aswani for Yuva Puraskar 2022 is selected unanimously by the Jury." So the 2022 Sindhi Yuva Puraskar went to Heena Aswani for the poetry collection Sindhyat Ji Surhaani (spelt "Sindhiyat Jee Surhanni" in the Akademi's consolidated winners list).

Cross-check — the Sindhi Yuva Puraskar across neighbouring years:

Contrast: The names on this paper all come from the same small Sindhi corpus, which is exactly why the year is the deciding detail. Monika J. Panjwani took the Sindhi Yuva Puraskar in 2023 for "Glamour" and Geeta Pradeep Rupani in 2024 for "Paper Parya" — both real Sindhi Yuva Puraskar winners, but of other years. Kirti Pradeep Rupani stood on the 2022 Sindhi recommendation list with the poetry collection "Mann-Ja-Geet"; appearing on that list is not the same as being the author the jury selected.

Result: Heena Aswani, for the Sindhi poetry collection "Sindhyat Ji Surhaani" (Yuva Puraskar 2022).