jnanpith award

Jnanpith Award is the highest literary honour presented by the Government of India. The award carries a cheque for Rs. 500,000, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Vagdevi. The award was instituted in 1961 and the first award was given to the Malayalam writer G Shankara Kurup in 1965. An Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. Before 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer. From 1982, the award is being given for overall contribution to Indian literature. So far Kannada writers have won 7 awards which is the highest for any language. Hindi writers have won 6 awards.

List of Awardees

(Year - Name - Works - Language)

1965 - G Sankara Kurup - Odakkuzhal (flute) - Malayalam
1966 - Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya - Ganadevta - Bengali
1967 - Dr. K.V. Puttappa - Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Glimpses of Ramayana) - Kannada
1967 - Uma Shankar Joshi - Nishitha - Gujarati
1968 - Sumitranandan Pant - Chidambara - Hindi
1969 - Firaq Gorakhpuri - Gul-e-Naghma - Urdu
1970 - Viswanatha Satyanarayana - Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) - Telugu
1971 - Bishnu Dey - Smriti Satta Bhavishyat - Bengali
1972 - Ramdhari Singh Dinkar - Urvashi - Hindi
1973 - Dattatreya Ramachandaran Bendre - Nakutanti - Kannada
1973 - Gopinath Mohanty - Mattimatal - Oriya
1974 - Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar - Yayati - Marathi
1975 - P.V.Akilandam - Chitttrappavai - Tamil
1976 - Asha Purna Devi - Pratham Pratisruti - Bengali
1977 - K.Shivaram Karanth - Mukkajjiya Kanasugalu (Nanny's dreams) - Kannada
1978 - S.H.V. Ajneya - Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) - Hindi
1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya - Mrityunjay (Immortal) - Assamese
1980 - S.K. Pottekkatt - Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a nation) - Malayalam
1981 - Amrita Pritam - Kagaj te Canvas - Punjabi
1982 - Mahadevi Varma - Hindi
1983 - Masti Venkatesh Ayengar - Kannada
1984 - Takazhi Sivashankara Pillai - Malayalam
1985 - Pannalal Patel - Gujarati
1986 - Sachidanand Rout Roy - Oriya
1987 - Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) - Marathi
1988 - Dr.C. Narayana Reddy - Telugu
1989 - Qurratulain Hyder - Urdu
1990 - V.K. Gokak - Kannada
1991 - Subash Mukhopadhyay - Bengali
1992 - Naresh Mehta - Hindi
1993 - Sitakant Mahapatra - Oriya
1994 - U.R. Ananthamurthy - Kannada
1995 - M.T. Vasudevan Nair - Malayalam
1996 - Mahasweta Devi - Bengali
1997 - Ali Sardar Jafri - Urdu
1998 - Girish Karnad - Kannada
1999 - Nirmal Verma - Hindi
1999 - Gurdial Singh - Punjabi
2000 - Indira Goswami - Assamese
2001 - Rajendra Keshavlal Shah - Gujarati
2002 - D. Jayakanthan - Tamil

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