The award, named after Sándor Csoma Kőrösi, the Hungarian explorer and philologist who wrote the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar, went to three students in the Hungarian studies department at the University of Delhi.
The first prize went to Shelly Khanna for an essay on the Hungarian poet and translator Miklós Radnóti's pomes and love and tragedy.
The Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre Delhi marked the hundredth anniversary of Radnóti's birth last year.
The second prize was awarded to Rupam Priyam for an essay on the place of women in the novels, short stories and poems of Margit Kaffka.
The third prize winner was Palvinder Singh Kohli, who compared Radnóti's poems about love and death with works on the same theme by the Indian Shiv Kumar Batalvi.
The awards were presented by Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre Delhi director Imre Lázár. The guest of honour at the event was Professor S.K. Vij, dean of the University of Delhi.
