Jnanpith Award
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| Jnanpith Award | ||
| Award Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Literature (Individual) | |
| Instituted | 1961 | |
| First Awarded | 1965 | |
| Last Awarded | 2006 | |
| Total Awarded | 46 | |
| Awarded by | Bharatiya Jnanpith | |
| Description | Literary award in India |
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| First Awardee(s) | G Sankara Kurup | |
The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship,[1] it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.[2] It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.
[edit] The Award
The name of the award is taken from Sanskrit jnāna-pīṭha = "knowledge-seat".[citation needed]
The award carries a check for Rs. 500,000, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Vagdevi, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.[3]
The award was instituted in 1961, and its first recipient, in 1965, was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honor.
Prior to 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer; since then, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian literature. Seven awards each have been awarded in Kannada and Hindi and followed by five in Bengali, four in Malayalam and three in Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi and Urdu[4].The award announcements have lately been lagging behind the award-years. The award for the years 2005 and 2006 were announced on November 22, 2008, and were awarded to the Hindi writer Kunwar Narayan for 2005 and jointly to Konkani writer Ravindra Kelekar and Sanskrit scholar Satya Vrat Shastri for 2006. [4]
Girish kaarnad-- Yayathi
[edit] References
- ^ Report from The Hindu, January 2007.: the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
- ^ Article from The Hindu
- ^ "Jnanpith award for Jayakanthan". Times of India. 20 Mar 2005. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1056950.cms. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
- ^ a b c d e "Kunwar Narayan to be awarded Jnanpith". Times of India. Nov 24, 2008. http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/Kunwar_Narayan_to_be_awarded_Jnanpith/articleshow/3752703.cms. Retrieved on 2008-11-25.
- ^ http://jnanpith.net/images/40thJnanpith_Declared.pdf 40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri Poet Shri Rahman Rahi
