Jnanpith Award Winner
Jnanpith Award is given to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”. It may be noted that Jnanpith Award is only awarded to the Indian writers writing in Indian languages. The First winner of the said award was G. Sankara Kurup for his collection of poems in 1965 and recently this ward is awarded to Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri in the year 2019. Till the year 1965 total fifty-nine (59) Indian writers have been won the Jnanpith Award.
From 1965 to 1981, the authors for their “most outstanding work” and the winners got the cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh and a bronze replica of Goddess Saraswati. And the rules were revised in subsequent years currently the winner of the award is awarded by Rs.11 lakh (equivalent to ₹12 lakh or US$17,000 in 2018). The more details of the Jnanpith Award Winner 2020 has been provided below, for the easement of the viewers, the List of Recipients (Gyanpeeth Award) in tabular format By Year has been stated below.
List of Jnanpith Award Recipients (Gyanpeeth Award) By Year
| Year | Recipient(s) | Language(s) |
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1965 (1st) | G. Sankara Kurup | Malayalam |
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1966 (2nd) | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Bengali |
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1967 (3rd) † | Umashankar Joshi | Gujarati |
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1967 (3rd) † | Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa ‘Kuvempu’ | Kannada |
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1968 (4th) | Sumitranandan Pant | Hindi |
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1969 (5th) | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu |
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1970 (6th) | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Telugu |
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1971 (7th) | Bishnu Dey | Bengali |
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1972 (8th) | Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ | Hindi |
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1973 (9th) † | D. R. Bendre | Kannada |
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1973 (9th) † | Gopinath Mohanty | Odia |
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1974 (10th) | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Marathi |
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1975 (11th) | Akilan | Tamil |
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1976 (12th) | Ashapoorna Devi | Bengali |
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1977 (13th) | K. Shivaram Karanth | Kannada |
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1978 (14th) | Sachchidananda Vatsyayan | Hindi |
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1979 (15th) | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Assamese |
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1980 (16th) | S. K. Pottekkatt | Malayalam |
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1981 (17th) | Amrita Pritam | Punjabi |
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1982 (18th) | Mahadevi Varma | Hindi |
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1983 (19th) | Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Kannada |
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1984 (20th) | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam |
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1985 (21st) | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati |
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1986 (22nd) | Sachidananda Routray | Odia |
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1987 (23rd) | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar ‘Kusumagraj’ | Marathi |
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1988 (24th) | C. Narayana Reddy | Telugu |
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1989 (25th) | Qurratulain Hyder | Urdu |
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1990 (26th) | Vinayaka Krishna Gokak | Kannada |
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1991 (27th) | Subhash Mukhopadhyay | Bengali |
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1992 (28th) | Naresh Mehta | Hindi |
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1993 (29th) | Sitakant Mahapatra | Odia |
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1994 (30th) | U. R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada |
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1995 (31st) | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam |
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1996 (32nd) | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali |
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1997 (33rd) | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu |
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1998 (34th) | Girish Karnad | Kannada |
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1999 (35th) † | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |
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1999 (35th) † | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi |
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2000 (36th) | Mamoni Raisom Goswami | Assamese |
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2001 (37th) | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati |
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2002 (38th) | Jayakanthan | Tamil |
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2003 (39th) | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi |
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2004 (40th) | Rehman Rahi | Kashmiri |
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2005 (41st) | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi |
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2006 (42nd) † | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani |
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2006 (42nd) † | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit |
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2007 (43rd) | O. N. V. Kurup | Malayalam |
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2008 (44th) | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ‘Shahryar’ | Urdu |
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2009 (45th) † | Amarkant | Hindi |
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2009 (45th) † | Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi |
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2010 (46th) | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Kannada |
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2011 (47th) | Pratibha Ray | Odia |
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2012 (48th) | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu |
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2013 (49th) | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi |
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2014 (50th) | Bhalchandra Nemade | Marathi |
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2015 (51st) | Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati |
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2016 (52nd) | Shankha Ghosh | Bengali |
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2017 (53rd) | Krishna Sobti | Hindi |
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2018 (54th) | Amitav Ghosh | English |
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2019 (55th) | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | Malayalam |