Thursday, January 27, 2011

Recipients of Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is the highest literary award in India. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of The Times of India newspaper. The Jnanpith Award is given to any Indian writer for his or her outstanding contribution in any of the 18 languages mentioned in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. It is given for outstanding contribution to creative writing in a specified period of 15 years but excluding the five years immediately preceding the year.

Following is the list of the Jnanpith Awardees, so far:

Laureates Awarded Year Language
Akhlaq Khan Shahryar 2008 Urdu
O. N. V. Kurup 2007 Malayalam
Satyavrat Shastri 2006 Sanskrit
Ravindra Kelekar 2006 Konkani
Kunwar Narain 2005 Hindi
Rahman Rahi 2004 Kashmiri
Vinda Karandikar 2003 Marathi
D. Jayakanthan 2002 Tamil
Rajendra Shah 2001 Gujarati
Indira Goswami 2000 Assamese
Nirmal Verma 1999 Hindi
Gurdial Singh 1999 Punjabi
Girish Karnad 1998 Kannada
Ali Sardar Jafri 1997 Urdu
Mahasveta Devi 1996 Bangla
M.T. Vasudevan Nair 1995 Malayalam
U.R. Anantha Murthy 1994 Kannada
Sitakant Mahapatra 1993 Oriya
Naresh Mehta 1992 Hindi
Subhash Mukhopadhyaya 1991 Bangla
V.K. Gokak 1990 Kannada
Qurratulain Hyder 1989 Urdu
C. Narayana Reddy 1988 Telugu
V.V.S. ‘Kusumagraj’ 1987 Marathi
Satchidanand Rautroy 1986 Oriya
Pannalal Patel 1985 Gujarati
Thakazhi S. Pillai 1984 Malayalam
Masti V. Iyengar 1983 Kannada
Mahadevi Varma 1982 Hindi
Amrita Pritam 1981 Punjabi
S.K. Pottekkatt 1980 Malayalam,
B.K. Bhattacharya 1979 Assamese
S.H.V. Ajneya 1978 Hindi
K.S. Karanth 1977 Kannada
Ashapurna Devi 1976 Bangla
P.V. Akilandam 1975 Tamil
V.S. Khandekar 1974 Marathi
D.R. Bendre 1973 Kannada,
Gopinath Mohanty 1973 Oriya
Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar’ 1972 Hindi
Bishnu Dey 1971 Bangla
V. Satyanarayana 1970 Telugu
Firaq Gorakhpuri 1969 Urdu
Sumitranandan Pant 1968 Hindi
Uma Shankar Joshi 1967 Gujarati
K.V. Puttappa 1967 Kannada
T.S. Bandyopadhyaya 1966 Bangla
G. Sankara Kurup 1965 Malayalam

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