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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] 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.

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.^[3]

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.^[4] Satya Vrat Shastri is the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception.^[5] The awards for the 45th and 46th Jnanpith for the years 2009 and 2010 respectively, were announced on 20 September 2011.^[6] The 45th award was jointly conferred on Hindi littérateurs Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla, and the 46th on the Kannada littérateur Chandrashekhara Kambara.^[6]

Jnanpith Award recipients

Year	State	Name	Works	Language	Picture
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	File:Shivaramakaranth.jpg
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
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	File:QHyder.jpg
1990	Karnataka	V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak)	Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi	Kannada	File:VKGokak.jpg
1991	Bengal	Subhas Mukhopadhyay	Padati	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	File:Mahasvetadevi.jpg
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
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^[4]
2006	Goa	Ravindra Kelekar		Konkani^[4]
2006	Uttar Pradesh	Satya Vrat Shastri		Sanskrit^[5]^[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]	File:Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shaharyar'.jpg
2009	Uttar Pradesh	Amar Kant		Hindi^[6]
2009	Uttar Pradesh	Shrilal Shukla		Hindi^[6]
2010	Karnataka	Chandrashekhara Kambara	for his contributions to Kannada literature	Kannada^[6]

References

^ 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. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Kunwar Narayan to be awarded Jnanpith". Times of India. Nov 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-25. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ ^a ^b "Jnanpith Award presented". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 20 August 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award", The Hindu, 20 September 2011. Cite error: The named reference "award 2009-10" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ 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. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

Jnanpith, Bhartiya (1994). The text and the context: an encounter with Jnanpith laureates. Bhartiya Jnanpith.

External links

Jnanpith Laureates Official listings Jnanpith Website
Official Jnanpith Website
List of winners
List of award winners in hindi

[1] Report from The Hindu, January 2007. Noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."

[2] Article from The Hindu

[3] "Jnanpith award for Jayakanthan". Times of India. 20 March 2005. Retrieved 2007-11-12.

[award2008-4] "Kunwar Narayan to be awarded Jnanpith". Times of India. Nov 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-25. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[satya-5] "Jnanpith Award presented". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 20 August 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.

[award_2009-10-6] "Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award", The Hindu, 20 September 2011. Cite error: The named reference "award 2009-10" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[7] Jnanpith, p. 18

[8] Menon, Parvathi. "The multi-faceted playwright", Frontline, Vol. 16, No. 03; 30 January - 12 February 1999.

[9] 40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri Poet Shri Rahman Rahi^{[dead link]}

[10] 41st and 42nd Jnanpith Awards, Official Press release^{[dead link]}

[hindu_sep10-11] "Malayalam, Urdu writers claim Jnanpith awards". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 25 September 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

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v t e Jnanpith Award recipients
1965–1985	G. Sankara Kurup (1965) Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1966) Kuvempu and Umashankar Joshi (1967) Sumitranandan Pant (1968) Firaq Gorakhpuri (1969) Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970) Bishnu Dey (1971) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1972) D. R. Bendre and Gopinath Mohanty (1973) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) Akilan (1975) Ashapurna Devi (1976) Shivaram Karanth (1977) Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1978) Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1979) S. K. Pottekkatt (1980) Amrita Pritam (1981) Mahadevi Varma (1982) Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (1983) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1984) Pannalal Patel (1985)
1986–2000	Sachidananda Routray (1986) Kusumagraj (1987) C. Narayana Reddy (1988) Qurratulain Hyder (1989) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1990) Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1991) Naresh Mehta (1992) Sitakant Mahapatra (1993) U. R. Ananthamurthy (1994) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1995) Mahasweta Devi (1996) Ali Sardar Jafri (1997) Girish Karnad (1998) Gurdial Singh and Nirmal Verma (1999) Mamoni Raisom Goswami (2000)
2001–present	Rajendra Shah (2001) Jayakanthan (2002) Vinda Karandikar (2003) Rehman Rahi (2004) Kunwar Narayan (2005) Ravindra Kelekar and Satya Vrat Shastri (2006) O. N. V. Kurup (2007) Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (2008) Amarkant and Shrilal Shukla (2009) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2010) Pratibha Ray (2011) Ravuri Bharadhwaja (2012) Kedarnath Singh (2013) Bhalchandra Nemade (2014) Raghuveer Chaudhari (2015) Shankha Ghosh (2016) Krishna Sobti (2017) Amitav Ghosh (2018) Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2019) Nilmani Phookan (2021) Damodar Mauzo (2022) Rambhadracharya and Gulzar (2023)