Jnanpith Award


The Jnanpith Award, instituted on May 22, 1961, is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution.


1965	Shankara Kurup			Odakkuzhal		  Malayalam	
1966	Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya	Ganadevta		  Bengali
1967	Dr. T.V. Puttappa		Sri Ramayana Darshanam	  Kannada	
1967	Uma Shankar Joshi		Nishitha		  Gujarati
1968	Sumitra Nandan Pant		Chidambara		  Hindi
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri		Gul-e-Naghma		  Urdu
1970	Vishwanath Satyanarauan		Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu	  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	  Kannada
1978	S.H.V. Ajneya			Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar Hindi
1979	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Mrityunjay		  Assamese
1980	S.K. Pottekkatt			Oru Desattinte Katha	  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. Narayanan Reddy					  Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder					  Urdu
1990	V.K. Gokak						  Kannada
1991	Subash Mukhopadhyay					  Bengali
1992	Niresh Mehta 						  Hindi
1993	Sitakant Mahapatra					  Oriya
1994	U.R. Ananthamurthy					  Kannada
1995	M.T. Vasudevan Nair					  Malayalam
1996	Mahasweta Devi						  Bengali		

From 1982, the award was given for overall contribution to literature


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