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Kerala PSC | List of Jnanpith Awards Winners

The Bharatiya Jnanpith annually presents an author with the Jnanpith Prize, the highest and oldest literary honour in India, in recognition of their "great contribution to literature." The award, which was established in 1961, is exclusively given to Indian authors who write in English and one of the Indian languages listed in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. Posthumous recipients are not eligible.

The idea to launch a programme "commanding national prestige and of international standard" to "select the best book out of the publications in Indian languages" originated in May 1961 at the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a research and cultural institution founded in 1944 by industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family. A few literary specialists were invited by Rama Jain, the founder of the Bharatiya Dnyanpith, later in November to discuss various components of the plan.

List of Jnanpith Award Winners

Kerala PSC | List of Jnanpith Awards Winners

Below is the complete list of Jnanpith Award winners from 1965 to 2022.

Year Jnanpith Award winners Language
1965 G. Sankara Kurup Malayalam
1966 Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Bengali
1967 Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa Kannada
1967 Umashankar Joshi Gujarati
1968 Sumitranandan Pant Hindi
1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu
1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu
1971 Bishnu Dey Bengali
1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Hindi
1973 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Kannada
1973 Gopinath Mohanty Oriya
1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Marathi
1975 P. V. Akilan Tamil
1976 Ashapurna Devi Bengali
1977 K. Shivaram Karanth K. Shivaram Karanth Kannada
1978 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan ‘Ajneya’ Hindi
1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Assamese
1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Malayalam
1981 Amrita Pritam Punjabi
1982 Mahadevi Varma Hindi
1983 Masti Venkatesh Iyengar Kannada
1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malayalam
1985 Pannalal Patel Gujarati
1986 Sachidananda Routray Oriya
1987 Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkaray Marathi
1988 Dr.C. Narayana Reddy Telugu
1989 Qurratulain Hyder Urdu
1990 Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada
1991 Subhas 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 Gurdial Singh Punjabi
1999 Nirmal Verma Hindi
2000 Indira Goswami Assamese
2001 D. Jayakanthan Tamil
2003 Vinda Karandikar Marathi
2004 Rehman Rahi Kashmiri
2005 Kunwar Narayan Hindi
2006 Ravindra Kelekar Konkani
2006 Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit
2007 ONV.Kurup Malayalam
2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Urdu
2009 Amar Kant Hindi
2009 Shrilal Shukla Hindi
2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara Kannada
2011 Pratibha Ray Oriya
2012 Ravauri Bharadwaja Telegu
2013 Kedarnath Singh Hindi
2014 Bhalchandra Nemade Marathi
2015 Dr. Raghuvir Chaudhari Gujarati
2016 Shanka Ghosh Bengali
2017 Krishna Sobti Hindi
2018 Amitav Ghosh English
2019 Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri Malayalam
2021 Nilamani Phookan Assamese
2022 Damodar Mauzo Konkani
2023 Rambhadracharya Sanskrit
2023 Gulzar Urdu

Points to Remember about Jnanpith Award

Jnanpith Award
Award for individual contributions to Literature Instituted in 1961
Awarded forLiterary award in India
Sponsored byBharatiya Jnanpith
Reward(s)₹11 lakh (equivalent to ₹14 lakh or US$18,000 in 2020)
First awarded1965
Last awarded2022
Total awarded62
First winnerG. Sankara Kurup
Last winnerRambhadracharya & Gulzar

Jnanpith Award Question Answers

Who is the first Jnanpith Award winner?

G.Sankara Kurup

Who was the first woman writer to win the Jnanpith award?

Ashapoorna Devi

In which year did Ashapoorna Devi receive the Jnanpith award?

1976 ( Bengali writer)

How many times have Malayalam writers received the Jnanpith award?

6

How many times have works in the Hindi language won the Jnanpith Award?

11

The year in which M.T. Vasudevan Nair received the Jnanpith Award?

1995

Who won the Jnanpith award in 2007?

ONV.Kurup

Name of the Jnanpith Award-winning work by G. Sankara Kurup?

Odakkuzhal (Collection Of Poems)

Who is the winner of Jnanpith Award 2019?

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

What is the prize money of Jnanpith Award?

11 lakh

What is the prize money of Jnanpith award in 1965?

1 lakh

The year Mahasweta Devi received the Jnanpith award?

1996

In which year did O.N.V. Kurup receive the Jnanpith Award?

2007

Who is the winner of Jnanpith Award 2010?

Chandrashekhara Kambara

How many people have received the Jnanpith award so far?

57(Until 2022)

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