Jnanpith Award Winners List

Hi friends,

Here is the list of Jnanpith award winners 

Jnanpith Award 

Winners List

1965 — G. Sankara Kurup – Odakkuzhal [Flute] (Malayalam) 


1966 — Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya – Ganadevta (Bengali)


1967 — Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) – Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Kannada) 


1967 — 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)


1973 — Gopinath Mohanty – Paraja (Oriya)


1974 — Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar – Yayati (Marathi)


1975 — P. V. Akilan – Chitttrappavai (Tamil) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


1976 — Ashapurna Devi – Pratham Pratisruti (Bengali)


1977 — K. Shivaram Karanth – Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Mookajjis dreams] 

(Kannada)


1978 — Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' – Kitni Navon Men 

Kitni Bar (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) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


1983 — Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar – 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) (data by 

facebook/cnaonweb)


1986 — Sachidananda Rout Roy (Oriya) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


1987 — Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) – Natsamrat (Marathi)


1988 — Dr.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 – Padati (Bengali)


1992 — Naresh Mehta (Hindi) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


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 – Randamoozham [Second Chance] 

(Malayalam)


1996 — Mahasweta Devi – Hajar Churashir Ma (Bengali) 


1997 — Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


1998 — Girish Karnad – "for his contributions to (Kannada) literature and 

for contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)" (Kannada)


1999 — Nirmal Verma (Hindi) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


1999 — Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)


2000 — Indira Goswami (Assamese) 


2001 — Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati)


2002 — D. Jayakanthan (Tamil) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


2003 — Vinda Karandikar – Ashtadarshana (poetry) (Marathi)


2004 — Rahman Rahi – Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren 

Manz (Kashmiri)


2005 — Kunwar Narayan (Hindi) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


2006 — Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani) 


2006 — Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit)


2007 — O. N. V. Kurup (Malayalam)


2008 — Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' (Urdu)


2009 — Amar Kant (Hindi) (data by facebook/cnaonweb)


2009 — Shrilal Shukla (Hindi)


2010 — Chandrashekhara Kambara – for his contributions to Kannada 

literature (Kannada)


2011 — Pratibha Ray (Oriya)


2012 — Ravuri Bharadhwaja – For his contributions to Telugu literature








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