Bharatiya Gyanpith Awards
Updated: 2019
Introduction
The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Started in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English, with no posthumous conferral.
The award consists of a citation, shawl, goddess Saraswati statue and cash prize of Rs.11 lakh.
From 1965 till 1981, the award was given to the authors for their "most outstanding work".The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), published in 1950.
Did You Know? The language of the most recent recipient's work is not eligible for consideration for the next two years:
Winners
List of Jnanpith Award Winners
| Year | Recipients | Language |
|---|---|---|
| 20189(55th) | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | Malayalam |
| 2018(54th) | Amitav Ghosh | English |
| 2017(53rd) | Krishna Sobti | Hindi |
| 2016(52nd) | Shankha Ghosh | Bengali |
| 2015(51st) | Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati |
| 2014(50th) | Bhalchandra Nemade | Marathi |
| 2013(49th) | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi |
| 2012(48th) | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu |
| 2011(47th) | Pratibha Ray | Odia |
| 2010(46th) | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Kannada |
| 2009(45th) | Amarkant | Hindi |
| 2009(45th) | Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi |
| 2008(44th) | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' | Urdu |
| 2007(43rd) | O. N. V. Kurup | Malayalam |
| 2006(42nd) | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani |
| 2006(42nd) | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit |
| 2005(41st) | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi |
| 2004(40th) | Rehman Rahi | Kashmiri |
| 2003(39th) | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi |
| 2002(38th) | Jayakanthan | Tamil |
| 2001(37th) | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati |
| 2000(36th) | Mamoni Raisom Goswami | Assamese |
| 1999(35th) | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |
| 1999(35th) | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi |
| 1998(34th) | Girish Karnad | Kannada |
| 1997(33rd) | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu |
| 1996(32nd) | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali |
| 1995(31st) | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam |
| 1994(30th) | U. R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada |
| 1993(29th) | Sitakant Mahapatra | Odia |
| 1992(28th) | Naresh Mehta | Hindi |
| 1991(27th) | Subhash Mukhopadhyay | Bengali |
| 1990(26th) | Vinayaka Krishna Gokak | Kannada |
| 1989(25th) | Qurratulain Hyder | Urdu |
| 1988(24th) | C. Narayana Reddy | Telugu |
| 1987(23rd) | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj' | Marathi |
| 1986(22nd) | Sachidananda Routray | Odia |
| 1985(21st) | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati |
| 1984(20th) | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam |
| 1983(19th) | Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Kannada |
| 1982(18th) | Mahadevi Varma | Hindi |
| 1981(17th) | Amrita Pritam | Punjabi |
| 1980(16th) | S. K. Pottekkatt | Malayalam |
| 1979(15th) | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Assamese |
| 1978(14th) | Sachchidananda Vatsyayan | Hindi |
| 1977(13th) | K. Shivaram Karanth | Kannada |
| 1976(12th) | Ashapoorna Devi | Bengali |
| 1975(11) | P.V.Akilandam | Tamil |
| 1974(10th) | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Marathi |
| 1973(9th) | D. R. Bendre | Kannada |
| 1973(9th) | Gopinath Mohanty | Odia |
| 1972(8th) | Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' | Hindi |
| 1971(7th) | Bishnu Dey | Bengali |
| 1970(6th) | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Telugu |
| 1969(5th) | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu |
| 1968(4th) | Sumitranandan Pant | Hindi |
| 1967(3rd) | Umashankar Joshi | Gujarathi |
| 1967(3rd) | Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' | Kannada |
| 1966(2nd) | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Bengali |
| 1965(1st) | G. Sankara Kurup | Malayalam |