The Jnanpith Award (also spelled as Gyanpeeth Award) is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the schedule eight (of the Indian constitution) language (in all 22 languages in schedule eight) is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the newspaper The Times of India.
The Jnanpith Award instituted in 1961 is the highest literary honour conferred in India.
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Year |
Name |
Works |
Language |
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1965 |
G Sankara Kurup |
Odakkuzhal (Flute) |
Malayalam |
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1966 |
Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya |
Ganadevta |
Bengali |
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1967 |
Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) |
Sri Ramayana Darshanam |
Kannada |
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1967 |
Umashankar Joshi |
Nishitha |
Gujarati |
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1968 |
Sumitranandan Pant |
Chidambara |
Hindi |
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1969 |
Firaq Gorakhpuri |
Gul-e-Naghma |
Urdu |
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1970 |
Viswanatha Satyanarayana |
Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) |
Telugu |
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1971 |
Bishnu Dey |
Smriti Satta Bhavishyat |
Bengali |
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1972 |
Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ |
Urvashi |
Hindi |
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1973 |
Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre |
Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) |
Kannada |
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1973 |
Gopinath Mohanty |
Paraja |
Oriya |
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1974 |
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar |
Yayati |
Marathi |
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1975 |
P.V.Akilan |
Chitttrappavai |
Tamil |
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1976 |
Asha Purna Devi |
Pratham Pratisruti |
Bengali |
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1977 |
K.Shivaram Karanth |
Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) |
Kannada |
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1978 |
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan ‘Ajneya’ |
Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) |
Hindi |
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1979 |
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya |
Mrityunjay (Immortal) |
Assamese |
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1980 |
S. K. Pottekkatt |
Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a land) |
Malayalam |
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1981 |
Amrita Pritam |
Kagaj te Canvas |
Punjabi |
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1982 |
Mahadevi Varma |
Yama |
Hindi |
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1983 |
Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar |
Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) |
Kannada |
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1984 |
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |[Kayar {Coir}|] |
Malayalam |
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1985 |
Pannalal Patel |
Maanavi Ni Bhavaai |
Gujarati |
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1986 |
Sachidananda RoutRoy |
Oriya |
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1987 |
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) |
Natsamrat |
Marathi |
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1988 |
Dr.C. Narayana Reddy |
Vishwambhara |
Telugu |
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1989 |
Qurratulain Hyder |
Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar |
Urdu |
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1990 |
V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) |
Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi |
Kannada |
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1991 |
Subhas Mukhopadhyay |
Bengali |
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1992 |
Naresh Mehta |
Hindi |
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1993 |
Sitakant Mahapatra |
Oriya |
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1994 |
U.R. Ananthamurthy |
Kannada |
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1995 |
M. T. Vasudevan Nair | |
Randamoozham (second chance) |
Malayalam |
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1996 |
Mahasweta Devi |
Bengali |
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1997 |
Ali Sardar Jafri |
Urdu |
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1998 |
Girish Karnad |
“for his contributions to modern Indian drama” |
Kannada |
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1999 |
Nirmal Verma |
Hindi |
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1999 |
Gurdial Singh |
Punjabi |
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2000 |
Indira Goswami |
Assamese |
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2001 |
Rajendra Keshavlal Shah |
Gujarati |
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2002 |
D. Jayakanthan |
Tamil |
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2003 |
Vinda Karandikar |
Ashtadarshana (poetry) |
Marathi |
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2004 |
Rahman Rahi |
Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz |
Kashmiri |
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2005 |
Kunwar Narayan |
Hindi |
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2006 |
Ravindra Kelekar |
Konkani |
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2006 |
Satya Vrat Shastri |
Sanskrit |
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2007 |
Dr. O. N. V. Kurup |
Malayalam |
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2008 |
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ‘Shahryar’ |
Urdu |
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2009 |
Amar Kant |
Hindi |
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2009 |
Shrilal Shukla |
Hindi |
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2010 |
Chandrashekhara Kambara |
Kannada |
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2011 |
Pratibha Ray |
Oriya |
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2012 |
Ravuri Bharadhwaja |
Telegu |
