Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is India's most important literary prize . It was founded in 1961 and has been awarded annually since 1965. Awardees can be Indian citizens who write in one of the official Indian languages. The award is endowed with 250,000 rupees . It was awarded for a single work until 1981, and since 1982 it has honored a writer who has made an important contribution to Indian literature.
List of award winners
(Year - name - work - language)
- 1965: Shankara Kurup - Odakkuzhal - Malayalam
- 1966: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay - Ganadevta - Bengali
- 1967: KV Puttappa - Sri Ramayana Darshanam - Kannada
- 1967: Uma Shankar Joshi - Nishitha - Gujarati
- 1968: Sumitranandan Pant - Chidambara - Hindi
- 1969: Firaq Gorakhpuri - Gul-e-Naghma - Urdu
- 1970: Viswanatha Satyanarayana - Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu - Telugu
- 1971: Bishnu De - Smriti Satta Bhavishyat - Bengali
- 1972: Ramdhari Singh Dinkar - Urvashi - Hindi
- 1973: Dattatreya Ramachandaran Bendre - Nakutanti - Kannada
- 1973: Gopinath Mohanty - Mattimatal - Oriya
- 1974: Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar - Yayati - Marathi
- 1975: PV Akilandam - Chitttrappavai - Tamil
- 1976: Asha Purna Devi - Pratham Pratisruti - Bengali
- 1977: K. Shivaram Karanth - Mukkajjiya Kanasugalu - Kannada
- 1978: SHV Ajneya - Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar - Hindi
- 1979: Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya - Mrityunjay - Assamese
- 1980: SK Pottekkatt - Oru Desattinte Katha - Malayalam
- 1981: Amrita Pritam - Kagaj te Canvas - Panjabi
- 1982: Mahadevi Varma - Hindi
- 1983: Masti Venkatesh Ayengar - Kannada
- 1984: T. Sivasankara Pillai - Malayalam
- 1985: Pannalal Patel - Gujarati
- 1986: Sachidanand Rout Roy - Oriya
- 1987: Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj - Marathi
- 1988: C. Narayana Reddy - Telugu
- 1989: Qurratulain Hyder - Urdu
- 1990: VK Gokak - Kannada
- 1991: Subash Mukhopadhyay - Bengali
- 1992: Naresh Mehta - Hindi
- 1993: Sitakant Mahapatra - Oriya
- 1994: UR Ananthamurthy - Kannada
- 1995: MT Vasudevan Nair - Malayalam
- 1996: Mahasweta Devi - Bengali
- 1997: Ali Sardar Jafri - Urdu
- 1998: Girish Karnad - Kannada
- 1999: Nirmal Verma - Hindi
- 1999: Gurdial Singh - Punjabi
- 2000: Indira Goswami - Assamese
- 2001: Rajendra Keshavlal Shah - Gujarati
- 2002: Jayakanthan - Tamil
- 2003: Vinda Karandikar - Marathi
- 2004: Rahman Rahi - Kashmiri
- 2005: Kunwar Narayan - Hindi
- 2006: Ravindra Kelekar - Konkani
- 2006: Satya Vrat Shastri - Sanskrit
- 2007: ONV Kurup - Malayalam
- 2008: Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (Shahryar) - Urdu
- 2009: Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla - Hindi
- 2010: Chandrashekhara Kambar - Kannada
- 2011: Pratibha Ray - Oriya
- 2012: Ravuri Bharadhwaja - Telugu
- 2013: Kedarnath Singh - Hindi
- 2014: Bhalchandra Nemade - Marathi
- 2015: Raghuveer Chaudhari - Gujarati
- 2016: Shankha Ghosh - Bengali
- 2017: Krishna Sobti - Hindi
- 2018: Amitav Ghosh - English
Web links
Commons : Jnanpith Award - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Jnanpith for Malayalam poet Kurup, Urdu scholar Shahryar" , The Times of India , September 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b "Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award" ( memento of the original from November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Hindu , September 20, 2011.
- ↑ Oriya novelist and academician Pratibha Ray wins 2011 Jnanpith Award from Press Trust of India on December 27, 2012
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Author Amitav Ghosh honored with 54h Jnanpith award , timesofindia.indiatimes.com, December 14, 2018, accessed on February 15, 2019