The Jnanpith Award

All the past awardees from 1965 to now.

Updated on: 25 July 2003 12:00 am

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The Jnanpith Award

Jnanpith Award Winners
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. From 1982 onwards, the award is given for overall contribution to literature; earlier a specific work used to be cited.

Year

Language

Winner

Book

2001GujaratiRajendra Keshavlal Shah 2000AssameseIndira Goswami 1999PunjabiGurdial Singh 1999HindiNirmal Verma 1998KannadaGirish Karnad 1997UrduAli Sardar Jafri 1996BengaliMahesweta Devi 1995MalayalamM.T. Vasudevan Nair 1994KannadaU.R. Anantha Murthy 1993OriyaSitakant Mahapatra 1992HindiNaresh Mehta 1991BengaliSubhash Mukhopadhyay 1990KannadaV.K Gokak 1989UrduQurratulain Hyder 1988TeluguDr C. Narayanan Reddy 1987MarathiVishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj 1986OriyaSachidanand Rout Roy 1985GujaratiPannalal Patel 1984MalayalamTakazhi Sivashankar Pillai 1983KannadaMasti Venkatesh Ayengar 1982HindiMahadevi Varma 1981PunjabiAmrita PritamKagaj te Canvas1980MalayalamS.K PottekkattOru Desattinte Katha1979AssameseBirendra Kumar BhattacharyaMrityunjay1978HindiS.H.V AjneyaKitni Navon Men Kitni Bar1977KannadaK Shivaram KaranthMukkajjiya Kanasugalu1976BengaliAsha Purna DeviPratham Pratisruti1975TamilP.V AkilandamChitttrappavai1974MarathiVishnu Sakaram KhandekarYayati1973OriyaGopinath MohantyMattimatal1973KannadaDattatreya Ramachandran BendreNakutanti1972HindiRamdhari Singh DinkarUrvashi1971BengaliBishnu DeySmriti Satta Bhavishyat1970TeluguVishwanath SatyanarayanRamayana Kalpavrikshamu1969UrduFiraq GorakpuriGul-e-Naghma1968HindiSumitra Nandan PantChidambara1967GujaratiUma Shankar JoshiNishitha1967KannadaDr K.V PuttappaSri Ramayana Darshanam1966BengaliTarashankar BandopadhyayaGanadevta1965MalayalamG. Shankara KurupOdakkuzhal