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(General Knowledge) Awards & Honours : National - Jnanpith Award
Awards and Honours
National
JNANPITH AWARD
Field : Literature
Instituted in : 1965
Cash Value : Rs. 5 lakh, a citation and a Vagdevi statue
Awarded to outstanding authors of creative literature
in any of the Indian languages recognised by the Constitution of India. It was
sponsored by the Bharatiya Jnanpith a culturo-literary society, founded in 1944
by Shanti Prasad Jain, an eminent industrialist.
First recipient : G. Sankara Kurup (Kerala)
First women recipient : Ashapoorna Devi (Calcutta)
The earlier winners of Jnanpith Award created by Shanti Prasad Jain and Rama Jain in 1963 for promoting outstanding literary works in regional languages, include Mahadevi Verma, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Girish Karnad, Amrita Pritam, U.R. Ananthamurthy and Quarratulain Hyder. So far there have been 39 recipients of this award.
LIST OF JNANPITH AWARDEES
| Year | Winner | Works | Language |
| 1965 | G. Sankara Kurup | Odakkuzhal (flute) | Malayalam |
| 1966 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya | Ganadevta | Bengali |
| 1967 | Dr. K.V. Puttappa | Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Glimpses of Ramayana) |
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| 1967 | Umashankar Joshi | Nishitha | Gujarati |
| 1968 | Sumitranandan Pant | Chidambara | Hindi |
| 1969 | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Gul-e-Naghma | Urudu |
| 1970 | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree: Ramayana) |
Telugu |
| 1971 | BishnuDey | Smriti Satta Bhavishyat | Bengali |
| 1972 | RamdhariSingh | Dinkar Urvashi | Hindi |
| 1973 | Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre | Nakutanti (Fou Strings) | Kannada |
| 1973 | Gopinath | Mohanty Mattimatal | Oriya |
| 1974 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Yayati | Marathi |
| 1975 | P.V.Akilandam Chittrappavai | Tamil | |
| 1976 | Asha Purna Devi | Pratham Pratisruti | Bengali |
| 1977 | K. Shivaram Karanth | Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajji’s dreams) |
Kannada |
| 1978 | Sachchidananda Hirananda | Kitni Navan Men Kitni Bar Vatsyayan (How many times in many boats?) |
Hindi |
| 1979 | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Mrityunjay (Immortal) | Assamese |
| 1980 | S.K. Pottekkatt | Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a land) | Malayalam |
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Kagaj te Canvas | Punjabi |
| 1982 | Mahadevi Verma | Yama | Hindi |
| 1983 | Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar | Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and Struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) |
Kanada |
| 1984 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam | |
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati | |
| 1986 | Sachindanand Rout Roy | Oriya | |
| 1987 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar | (Kusumagraj) (“Natsamrat”) | Marathi |
| 1988 | Dr. C. Narayana Reddy | Tulugu | |
| 1989 | Quarratulain Hyder | Urdu | |
| 1990 | V.K. Gokak | Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi | 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 | Tuglaq | Kannada |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi | |
| 1999 | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | |
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese | |
| 2001 | Rajendra Keshavlal Shah | Gujarati | |
| 2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil | |
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | Subuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Man | Marathi |
| 2004 | Rahman Rahi | Literary work in Kashmiri language | Kashmiri |
| 2005 | Kunwar Narain | For his contribution to Hindi literature | Hindi |
| 2006 | Satyavrat Shastri | For his contribution to Sanskrit literature | Sanskrit |
| 2006 | Ravindra Kelekar | For his contribution to Konkani literature | Konkani |
