Bharatiya Jnanpith Award

Bharatiya Jnanpith Award

 

Ø  Field                            :           Literature.

Ø  Instituted                     :           22^nd May 1961.

Ø  Prize                            :           The Jnanpith Award carries a citation, shawl, srifal, 

                                                     a bronze Replica of Vagdevi (Saraswati), the goddess 

                                                     of learning and a cash prize of Rs. 11 lakh.

Ø  First recipients             :           Malayam writer G. Shankar Kurup (Kerela) in 1965.

Ø  First female recipients :           Bengali writer Ashapurna Devi (West Bengal) in 1976.

Ø  Sponsored by               :           Bharatiya Jnanpith, a culture-literacy society founded in 

                                                    1944 by Shanti Prasad Jain, an eminent industrialist.

Before 1982, the award was given for a single piece of work by writer, but after 1982, the award is being given for overall contribution to the Indian Literature.

Bharatiya Jnanpith Award Recipients:

SL.	Year	Recipient(s)	Book(s)	Language(s)
1st	1965	G. Shankar Kurup	Odakkujhal	Malayalam
2nd	1966	Tara Shankar Bandyopadhyay	Ganadevata	Bengali
3rd	1967	Umashankar Joshi	Nishith	Gujrati
		Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu)	Ramayan Darshanam	Kannada
4th	1968	Sumitra Nandan Pant	Chidambara	Hindi
5th	1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Gul-e-Naghma	Urdu
6th	1970	Vishwanath Satyanarayana	Shreemad Ramayan Kalpavriksham	Telugu
7th	1971	Vishnu Dey	Smriti Satta Bhavishya	Bengali
8th	1972	Ramdhari Singh (Dinkar)	Urvashi	Hindi
9th	1973	Gopinath Mohanty	Mati Matal	Odia
		D.R. Bendre	Naku Thanthi	Kannada
10th	1974	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Yayati	Marathi
11th	1975	P.V. Akilandam	Chittirappavai	Tamil
12th	1976	Smt. Ashapurna Devi	Pratham Pratishruti	Bengali
13th	1977	Dr. K. Shivram Karanth	Mukajjiya Kanasugalu	Kannada
14th	1978	Dr. Sachidananda Hiranand Vatsyayana (Agyeya)	Kitna Nawon Mein Kitni Bar	Hindi
15th	1979	Dr. Virendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Mrityunjay	Assamia
16th	1980	S.K. Pottekat	Oru Dishatinte Katha	Malayalam
17th	1981	Amrita Pritam	Kagaz te Canvas	Punjabi
18th	1982	Mahadevi Verma	Yama	Hindi
19th	1983	Masti Venkatesh Iyengar	Chikaveer Rajendra	Kannada
20th	1984	T. Shiv Shankar Pillai	Kayar	Malayalam
21st	1985	Pannalal Patel	Manvini Bhavai	Gujrati
22nd	1986	Sachida Nanda Routroy	For his contribution to Odia Literature	Odia
23rd	1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar	For his contribution to Marathi Literature	Marathi
24th	1988	Dr. C Narayana Reddy	Viswambhara	Telugu
25th	1989	Qurrtul-ain-Hyder	Akhire Sab Ke Ham Safar	Urdu
26th	1990	Prof. Vinayak Krishna Gokak	Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi	Kannada
27th	1991	Subhash Mukhopadhyay	Padatik	Bengali
28th	1992	Naresh Mehta	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
29th	1993	Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra	For his contribution to Odia Literature	Odia
30th	1994	Prof. U.R. Ananthamurthy	For his contribution to Kannada Literature	Kannada
31st	1995	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	For his contribution to Malayalam Literature	Malayalam
32nd	1996	Mrs. Mahashweta Devi	Hajar Churashir Maa	Bengali
33rd	1997	Ali Sardar Jafri	For his contribution to Urdu Literature	Urdu
34th	1998	Girish Karnad	For his contribution to Kannada Literature	Kannada
35th	1999	Nirmal Verma	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
		Gurdayal Singh	For his contribution to Punjabi Literature	Punjabi
36th	2000	Dr. Indira goswami	For her contribution to Assamese Literature	Assamese
37th	2001	Rajendra Keshavlal Shah	For his contribution to Gujarati Literature	Gujarati
38th	2002	D. Jayakanthan	For his contribution to Tamil Literature	Tamil
39th	2003	Vinda Karandikar	For his contribution to Marathi Literature	Marathi
40th	2004	Rehman Rahi	For his contribution to Kashmiri Literature	Kashmiri
41th	2005	Kunwar Narayan	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
42nd	2006	Ravindra Kelekar	For his contribution to Konkani Literature	Konkani
		Satya Vrat Shastri	For his contribution to Sanskrit Literature	Sanskrit
43rd	2007	O.N.V. Kurup	For his contribution to Malayalam Literature	Malayalam
44th	2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (Shahryar)	For his contribution to Urdu Literature	Urdu
45th	2009	Amarkanth	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
		Sri Lal Sukla	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
46th	2010	Chandrashekhara Kambara	For his contribution to Kannada Literature	Kannada
47th	2011	Pratibha Ray	Yajnaseni	Odia
48th	2012	Ravuri Bharadhwaja	Pakudurallu (Crawling stones)	Telugu
49th	2013	Kedarnath Singh	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
50th	2014	Bhalchandra Nemade	For his contribution to Marathi Literature	Marathi
51st	2015	Raghuveer Chaudhari	For his contribution to Gujarati Literature	Gujarati
52nd	2016	Shankha Ghosh	For his contribution to Bengali Literature	Bengali
53rd	2017	Krishna Sobti	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
54th	2018	Amitav Ghosh	For his contribution to Hindi Literature	Hindi
55th	2019	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri	For his contribution to Malayalam Literature	Malayalam

 

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