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The Jnanpith
Award, an
Indian
literary
award
presented
annually by
the
Bharatiya
Jnanpith to
an author
for their
outstanding
contribution
towards
literature,
was
instituted
in 1961.
The award is
bestowed
only on
Indian
writers
writing in
Indian
languages
included in
the Eighth
Schedule to
the
Constitution
of India and
English.
|
Year |
Recipient(s) |
Language(s) |
|
1965 |
G.
Sankara
Kurup |
Malayalam |
|
1966 |
Tarasankar
Bandyopadhyay |
Bengali |
|
1967 |
Umashankar
Joshi |
Gujarati |
|
1967 |
Kuppali
Venkatappa
Puttappa
'Kuvempu' |
Kannada |
|
1968 |
Sumitranandan
Pant |
Hindi |
|
1969 |
Firaq
Gorakhpuri |
Urdu |
|
1970 |
Viswanatha
Satyanarayana |
Telugu |
|
1971 |
Bishnu
Dey |
Bengali |
|
1972 |
Ramdhari
Singh
'Dinkar' |
Hindi |
|
1973 |
D.
R.
Bendre |
Kannada |
|
1973 |
Gopinath
Mohanty |
Odia |
|
1974 |
Vishnu
Sakharam
Khandekar |
Marathi |
|
1975 |
Akilan |
Tamil |
|
1976 |
Ashapoorna
Devi |
Bengali |
|
1977 |
K.
Shivaram
Karanth |
Kannada |
|
1978 |
Sachchidananda
Vatsyayan |
Hindi |
|
1979 |
Birendra
Kumar
Bhattacharya |
Assamese |
|
1980 |
S.
K.
Pottekkatt |
Malayalam |
|
1981 |
Amrita
Pritam |
Punjabi |
|
1982 |
Mahadevi
Varma |
Hindi |
|
1983 |
Masti
Venkatesha
Iyengar |
Kannada |
|
1984 |
Thakazhi
Sivasankara
Pillai |
Malayalam |
|
1985 |
Pannalal
Patel |
Gujarati |
|
1986 |
Sachidananda
Routray |
Odia |
|
1987 |
Vishnu
Vaman
Shirwadkar
'Kusumagraj' |
Marathi |
|
1988 |
C.
Narayana
Reddy |
Telugu |
|
1989 |
Qurratulain
Hyder |
Urdu |
|
1990 |
Vinayaka
Krishna
Gokak |
Kannada |
|
1991 |
Subhash
Mukhopadhyay |
Bengali |
|
1992 |
Naresh
Mehta |
Hindi |
|
1993 |
Sitakant
Mahapatra |
Odia |
|
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 |
Mamoni
Raisom
Goswami |
Assamese |
|
2001 |
Rajendra
Shah |
Gujarati |
|
2002 |
Jayakanthan |
Tamil |
|
2003 |
Vinda
Karandikar |
Marathi |
|
2004 |
Rehman
Rahi |
Kashmiri |
|
2005 |
Kunwar
Narayan |
Hindi |
|
2006 |
Ravindra
Kelekar |
Konkani |
|
2006 |
Satya
Vrat
Shastri |
Sanskrit |
|
2007 |
O.
N.
V.
Kurup |
Malayalam |
|
2008 |
Akhlaq
Mohammed
Khan
'Shahryar' |
Urdu |
|
2009 |
Amarkant |
Hindi |
|
2009 |
Sri
Lal
Sukla |
Hindi |
|
2010 |
Chandrashekhara
Kambara |
Kannada |
|
2011 |
Pratibha
Ray |
Odia |
|
2012 |
Ravuri
Bharadhwaja |
Telugu |
|
2013 |
Kedarnath
Singh |
Hindi |
|
2014 |
Bhalchandra
Nemade |
Marathi |
|
2015 |
Raghuveer
Chaudhari |
Gujarati |
2016 |
Shankha
Ghosh |
Bengali |
| 2017 |
Krishna Sobti |
Hindi |
| 2018 |
Amitav Ghosh |
English |
| 2019 |
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri |
Malayalam |
| 2020 |
Nilamani Phookan |
Assamese |
| 2021 |
Damodar Mauzo |
Konkani |
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