List of Jnanpith Award Recipients up to 2014 [PDF]

List of Jnanpith Award Recipients in India up to 2014. The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. It is one of the most prestigious literary honours in India. 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 name of the award is taken from Sanskrit words jnāna and pīṭha (knowledge-seat). It carries a cheque for 7 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.

Complete List of Jnanpith Award Recipients
Year	Name	Works	Language
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Odakkuzhal	Malayalam
1966	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	Ganadevta	Bengali
1967	Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa	Sri Ramayana Darshanam	Kannada
	Umashankar Joshi	Nishitha	Gujarati
1968	Sumitranandan Pant	Chidambara	Hindi
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Gul-e-Naghma	Urdu
1970	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu  (A resourceful tree: Ramayana)	Telugu
1971	Bishnu Dey	Smriti Satta Bhavishyat	Bengali
1972	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Urvashi	Hindi
1973	Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre	Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings)	Kannada
	Gopinath Mohanty	Matimatal	Oriya
1974	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Yayati	Marathi
1975	P. V. Akilan	Chitttrappavai	Tamil
1976	Ashapurna Devi	Pratham Pratisruti	Bengali
1977	K. Shivaram Karanth	Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams)	Kannada
1978	Sachchidananda Vatsyayan	Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in how many boats?)	Hindi
1979	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Mrityunjay (Immortal)	Assamese
1980	S. K. Pottekkatt	Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a land)	Malayalam
1981	Amrita Pritam	Kagaj te Canvas	Punjabi
1982	Mahadevi Varma	Yama	Hindi
1983	Masti Venkatesha Iyengar	Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra)	Kannada
1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Kayar (Coir)	Malayalam
1985	Pannalal Patel	Maanavi Ni Bhavaai	Gujarati
1986	Sachidananda Routray	---	Oriya
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)	For his contributions to Marathi literature	Marathi
1988	C. Narayana Reddy	Vishwambhara	Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar	Urdu
1990	V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak)	Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi	Kannada
1991	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	Oriya
1994	U. R. Ananthamurthy	For his contributions to Kannada literature	Kannada
1995	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	For his contributions to Malayalam literature	Malayalam
1996	Mahasweta Devi	Hajar Churashir Maa	Bengali
1997	Ali Sardar Jafri	---	Urdu
1998	Girish Karnad	For his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati).	Kannada
1999	Nirmal Verma	---	Hindi
	Gurdial Singh	---	Ardh channee rathni
2000	Indira Goswami	---	Assamese
2001	Rajendra Shah	---	Gujarati
2002	D. Jayakanthan	---	Tamil
2003	Vinda Karandikar	For his contributions to Marathi literature	Marathi
2004	Rehman Rahi	Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz	Kashmiri
2005	Kunwar Narayan	---	Hindi
2006	Ravindra Kelekar	---	Konkani
	Satya Vrat Shastri	---	Sanskrit
2007	O. N. V. Kurup	For his contributions to Malayalam literature	Malayalam
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'	---	Urdu
2009	Amar Kant	---	Hindi
	Sri Lal Sukla	---	Hindi
2010	Chandrashekhara Kambara	For his contributions to Kannada literature	Kannada
2011	Pratibha Ray	---	Oriya
2012	Ravuri Bharadhwaja	For his contributions to Telugu literature	Telugu
2013	Kedarnath Singh	---	Hindi

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