Jnanpith Awards

Jnanpith Awards Facts : List of awardees

 *Jnanpith Award is
being presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by Sahu Jain family,
who are the publishers of the newspaper The Times Of India.

* Along with Sahitya Academy Fellowship,it is one of the two
most  prestigious literary honours  in the country.

*The award was instituted in 1961.

* The name of the award has been taken from Sanskrita word,
Jnana means knowledge and pitha means seat. The award carries a cheque for Rs
11 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Goddess Saraswathi.

2010 – Chandrashekhara Kambarafor –    Kannada

2009 –  Amar Kant                                 Hindi

2009-   Shrilal
Shukla                              
Hindi

2008   Akhlaq Mohammed
Khan               Urdu

2007    Dr. O. N. V.
Kurup                         Malayalam

2006   Satya Vrat
Shastri                         Sanskrit

2006   Ravindra
Kelekar                           Konkani

2005   Kunwar
Narayan                            Hindi

2004   Rahman
Rahi                                
Kashmiri

2003   Vinda
Karandikar                          Marathi

2002   D.
Jayakanthan                            
Tamil

2001   Rajendra
Keshavlal Shah               Gujarati

2000   Indira
Goswami                          
Assamese

1999   Gurdial
Singh                              
Punjabi

1999   Nirmal Verma                             Hindi

1998   Girish
Karnad                            
Kannada

1997   Ali Sardar
Jafri                              Urdu

1996    Mahasweta
Devi                           Bengali

1995    Dr. M. T.
Vasudevan Nair              Malayalam

1994U. R. Ananthamurthy                    Kannada

1993    Sitakant
Mahapatra                       Oriya

1992     Naresh
Mehta                               
Hindi

1991   Subhas
Mukhopadhyay                  Bengali

1990   V. K.
Gokak                               
Kannada

1989   Qurratulain
Hyder                          Urdu

1988   Dr. C. Narayana
Reddy                   Telugu

1987   Vishnu Vaman
Shirwadkar             Marathi

1986    Sachidananda
Rout Roy                  Oriya

1985    Pannalal
Patel                            
Gujarati

1984   Thakazhi
Sivasankara Pillai          Malayalam

1983    Maasti
Venkatesh Ayengar           Kannada

1982   Mahadevi
Varma                          Hindi

1981   Amrita
Pritam                             
Punjabi

1980   S. K.
Pottekkatt                          
Malayalam

1979   Birendra Kumar
Bhattacharya         Assamese

1978   Sachchidananda
Hirananda           Hindi

1977   K. Shivaram
Karanth                     Bengali

1975   P. V.
AkilanChitttrappavai              Tamil

1974   Vishnu Sakharam
Khandekar         Marathi

1973   Dattatreya
Ramachandra Bendre    Kannada

1973    Gopinath
MohantyParaja                 Oriya

1972    Ramdhari
Singh                               Hindi

1971    Bishnu
Dey                                    
Bengali

1970    Viswanatha
Satyanarayana               Telugu

1969     Firaq
Gorakhpuri                              
Urdu

1968    Sumitranandan
Pant                         Hindi

1967    Umashankar
Joshi                           Gujarati

1967    Kuppali
Venkatappagowda              Kannada

1966    Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya             Bengali

1965G. Sankara Kurup                         Malayalam