Jnanpith Award
| Jnanpith Award | ||
| Award Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Literature (Individual) | |
| Instituted | 1961 | |
| First Awarded | 1965 | |
| Last Awarded | 2010[1] | |
| Total Awarded | 46[1] (51 persons) | |
| Awarded by | Bharatiya Jnanpith | |
| Description | Literary award in India |
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| First Awardee(s) | G Sankara Kurup | |
| Last Awardee(s) | Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla and Chandrashekhara Kambara[1] | |
The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship,[2] it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.[3] The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.
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[edit] The Award
The name of the award is taken from Sanskrit words gnyāna and pīṭha (knowledge-seat). It carries a check for 
7 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.[4]
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. Nine individuals [Including the 2009 award which is being shared by two Hindi writers] writing in Hindi have been honoured with the award, eight in Kannada, five in Bengali and Malayalam, four in Urdu and three in Gujarati, Oriya and Marathi.[citation needed]
The award announcements have lately been lagging behind the award-years. The awards 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.[5] Satya Vrat Shastri is the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception.[6] The awards for the 45th and 46th Jnanpith for the years 2009 and 2010 respectively, were announced on 20 September 2011.[1] The 45th award was jointly conferred on Hindi littérateurs Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla, and the 46th on the Kannada littérateur Chandrashekhara Kambara.[1]
[edit] Jnanpith Award recipients
| Year | State | Name | Works | Language | Picture |
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| 1965 | Kerala | G. Sankara Kurup | Odakkuzhal (Flute) | Malayalam |  |
| 1966 | West Bengal | Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya | Ganadevta | Bengali | |
| 1967 | Karnataka | Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) | Sri Ramayana Darshanam | Kannada |  |
| 1967 | Gujarat | Umashankar Joshi | Nishitha | Gujarati | |
| 1968 | Sumitranandan Pant | Chidambara | Hindi | ||
| 1969 | Uttar Pradesh | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Gul-e-Naghma | Urdu | |
| 1970 | Andhra Pradesh | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) | Telugu | |
| 1971 | Bengal | Bishnu Dey | Smriti Satta Bhavishyat | Bengali | |
| 1972 | Bihar | Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' | Urvashi | Hindi | |
| 1973 | Karnataka | Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre | Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) | Kannada |  |
| 1973 | Orissa | Gopinath Mohanty | Paraja | Oriya | |
| 1974 | Maharashtra | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Yayati | Marathi | |
| 1975 | Tamilnadu | P. V. Akilan | Chitttrappavai | Tamil |  |
| 1976 | Bengal | Ashapurna Devi | Pratham Pratisruti | Bengali | |
| 1977 | Karnataka | K. Shivaram Karanth | Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) | Kannada |  |
| 1978 | Uttar Pradesh | Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' | Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) | Hindi | |
| 1979 | Assam | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Mrityunjay (Immortal) | Assamese | |
| 1980 | Kerala | S. K. Pottekkatt | Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a land) | Malayalam |  |
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Kagaj te Canvas | Punjabi | _,_in_1948.jpg) |
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| 1982 | Uttar Pradesh | Mahadevi Varma | Yama | Hindi | |
| 1983 | Karnataka | Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar | Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) | Kannada |  |
| 1984 | Kerala | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Kayar {Coir} | Malayalam | |
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (માનવીની ભવાઇ) | Gujarati | ||
| 1986 | Sachidananda Rout Roy | Oriya | |||
| 1987 | Maharashtra | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) | Natsamrat | Marathi | |
| 1988 | Andhra Pradesh | Dr. C. Narayana Reddy | Vishwambhara | Telugu | |
| 1989 | Qurratulain Hyder | Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar | Urdu |  |
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| 1990 | Karnataka | V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) | Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi | Kannada |  |
| 1991 | Bengal | Subhas Mukhopadhyay | Padatik (The Foot Soldier) | Bengali | |
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi | |||
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973–92"[7] | Oriya | ||
| 1994 | Karnataka | U. R. Ananthamurthy | for his contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada |  |
| 1995 | Kerala | Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair | for his contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam |  |
| 1996 | Bengal | Mahasweta Devi | Hajar Churashir Ma | Bengali |  |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu | |||
| 1998 | Karnataka | Girish Karnad | "for his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theater (yayati)"[8] | Kannada |  |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi | .jpg) |
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| 1999 | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | |||
| 2000 | Assam | Indira Goswami | Assamese | ||
| 2001 | Rajendra Keshavlal Shah | Gujarati | |||
| 2002 | Tamilnadu | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil | ||
| 2003 | Maharashtra | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi | ||
| 2004 | Jammu & Kashmir | Rahman Rahi | Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz | Kashmiri[9] | |
| 2005 | Uttar Pradesh | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi[5] | ||
| 2006 | Goa | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani[5] |  |
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| 2006 | Uttar Pradesh | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit[6][10] | ||
| 2007 | Kerala | Dr. O. N. V. Kurup | for his contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam[11] |  |
| 2008 | Uttar Pradesh | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' | Urdu[11] |  |
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| 2009 | Uttar Pradesh | Amar Kant | Hindi[1] | ||
| 2009 | Uttar Pradesh | Shrilal Shukla | Hindi[1] | ||
| 2010 | Karnataka | Chandrashekhara Kambara | for his contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada[1] |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award", The Hindu, 20 September 2011.
- ^ Report from The Hindu, January 2007. 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 March 2005. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1056950.cms. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ a b c "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 2008-11-25.
- ^ a b "Jnanpith Award presented". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 20 August 2009. http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/20/stories/2009082057081100.htm. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
- ^ Jnanpith, p. 18
- ^ Menon, Parvathi. "The multi-faceted playwright", Frontline, Vol. 16, No. 03; 30 January - 12 February 1999.
- ^ 40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri Poet Shri Rahman Rahi[dead link]
- ^ 41st and 42nd Jnanpith Awards, Official Press release[dead link]
- ^ a b "Malayalam, Urdu writers claim Jnanpith awards". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 25 September 2010. http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/25/stories/2010092556201600.htm. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- Jnanpith, Bhartiya (1994). The text and the context: an encounter with Jnanpith laureates. Bhartiya Jnanpith. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=XfzZvNc6hPkC&pg=PA17&dq=Sitakant+Mahapatra&cd=72#v=onepage&q=Sitakant%20Mahapatra&f=false.
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