Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature".
» The first Jnanpith Award was given in 1965.
» The Jnanpith Award carries a citation, shawl, srifal, a bronze idol of Vagdevi Saraswati and a cash prize of Rs. 7,00,000
» Out of twenty-three eligible languages, the award has been presented for works in sixteen languages: Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, , Urdu, Telugu, Assamese, Punjabi, Tamil, English, Kashmiri, Konkani, and Sanskrit.
» The Jnanpith Award presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith a trust found by the Sahu Jain family, the Publishers of the Times of India newspaper.
Year | Recipient | Work |
1965 | G. Shankar Kurup | Auda Kujai (Malayalam) |
1966 | Tara Shankar Bandyopadhyay | Ganadevata (Bengali) |
1967 | K.V. Putappa,Uma Shankar Joshi | Ramayan Darshanam (Kannada), Nisheeth (Gujarati) |
1968 | Sumitra Nandan Pant | Chidambara (Hindi) |
1969 | Prof. Raghupati Sahay (Firaq Gorakhpuri) | Gul-e-Naghma (Urdu) |
1970 | Vishwanath Satyanarayana | Shreemad Ramayan Kalpavriksham (Telugu) |
1971 | Vishnu Dey | Smriti Satta Bhavishya (Bengali) |
1972 | Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' | Urvashi (Hindi) |
1973 | Gopinath Mohanty, D.R Bendre | Mati Matal (Oriya), Naku Thandi(Kannada) |
1974 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Yayati (Marathi) |
1975 | P.V. Akilandam | Chittirappavai (Tamil) |
1976 | Smt. Ashapurna Devi | Pratham Pratishruti (Bengali) |
1977 | Dr.K. Shivram Karanth | Mukajjiya Kanasugalu (Kannada) |
1978 | Dr Sachidananda Hiranand Vatsyayana 'Agyeya' | Kitni Nawon Mein Kitni Bar (Hindi) |
1979 | Dr. Virendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Mrityunjay (Assamia) |
1980 | S.K Pottekat | Oru Dishatinte Katha (Malayalam) |
1981 | Amrita Pritam | Kagaz te Canvas (Panjabi) |
1982 | Mahadevi Verma | Yama (Hindi) |
1983 | Masti Venkatesh Iyengar | Chikaveer Rajendra (Kannada) |
1984 | T. Shiv Shankar Pillai | Kayar (Malayalam) |
1985 | Pannalal Patel | Manvini Bhavai (Gujarati) |
1986 | Sachida Nanda Routroy | Oriya Literature |
1987 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar | Marathi Literature |
1988 | Dr. C. Narayana Reddy | Telugu Literature |
1989 | Qurrtul - ain - Hyder | Urdu Literature |
1990 | Prof. Vinayak Krishna Gokak | Kannada Literature |
1991 | Subhash Mukhopadhyay | Bengali Literature |
1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi Literature |
1993 | Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra | Oriya Literature |
1994 | Prof. U. R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada Literature |
1995 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam Literature |
1996 | Mrs. Mahashweta Devi | Bengali Literature |
1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu Literature |
1998 | Girish Kamad | Kannada Literature |
1999 | Nirmal Verma, Gurdayal Singh | Hindi Literature, Punjabi Literature |
2000 | Dr. Indira Goswami | Assamese Literature |
2001 | Rajendra Keshavlal Shah | Gujarati Literature |
2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil Literature |
2003 | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi Literature |
2004 | Rehman Rahi | Kashmiri |
2005 | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi Literature |
2006 | Satyavrat Shastri, Ravindra Kelekar | Sanskrit Literature, Konkani Literature |
2007 | O.N.V. Kurup | Malayalam Literature |
2008 | Akhlaq Mohammad Khan 'Shaharyar' | Urdu Literature |
2009 | Amarkant and Shrilal Shukla | Hindi Literature |
2010 | Chandrashekhar Kambar | Kannada Literature |
2011 | Pratibha Ray | Odiya Literature |
2012 | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu Literature |
2013 | Kedar Nath Singh | Hindi Literature |
2014 | Bhalchandra Nemade | Kosala(Marathi) |
2015 | Dr. Raghuvir Chaudhari | For Gujarati Literature |
2016 | Shanka Ghosh | For Bengali Literature |
2017 | Mrs. Krishna Sobti | For Hindi Literature |
2018 | Amitav Ghosh | The Circle of Reason (English) |
2019 | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | For Malayalam Literature |
2020 | Nilmani Phookan | Assamese |
2021 | Damador Mauzo | Konkani |