The Jnanpith Award (ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार) is the highest literary honour conferred in the Republic of India. It is presented by the Jnanpith Trust, which was founded by the Sahu Jain family, publishers of The Times of India. The award carries a check for Rs. 500,000, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Vagdevi. The award was instituted in 1961. Its first recipient was Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup in 1965. An Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honor. Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... G Sankara KURUP, (born June 3, 1901, Nayathode, Kerala, India - February 2, 1978, Trivandrum, Kerala), better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet G), was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, the Government of Indias highest literary award. ... Sahu Jain is an important industrial family of India. ... The Times of India, often abbreviated as TOI, is one of Indias leading daily newspapers, owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. ... ISO 4217 Code INR User(s) India, Bhutan Inflation 5. ... Assorted ancient Bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ... This article is about Saraswati, the Hindu goddess. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... G Sankara Kurup From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Map of South Asia in native languages. ...

Before 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer. From 1982, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian literature. So far Kannada writers have won 7 awards, which is the highest for any language. Hindi writers have won 6.^[1] Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Kannada - aptly described as sirigannada (known to few as Kanarese) is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people. ... Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the two official languages of India, the other being English. ...

Its name is taken from Sanskrit jnāna-pīṭha = "knowledge-seat".^{[citation needed]} The Sanskrit language ( , for short ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ...

List of Awardees

(Year - Name - Works - Language)

• 1965 - G Sankara Kurup - Odakkuzhal (flute) - Malayalam
• 1966 - Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya - Ganadevta - Bengali
• 1967 - Dr. K.V. Puttappa - Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Glimpses of Ramayana) - 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 (Four Strings) - Kannada
• 1973 - Gopinath Mohanty - Mattimatal - Oriya
• 1974 - Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar - Yayati - Marathi
• 1975 - P.V.Akilandam - Chitttrappavai - Tamil
• 1976 - Asha Purna Devi - Pratham Pratisruti - Bengali
• 1977 - K.Shivaram Karanth - Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajji's dreams) - Kannada
• 1978 - Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan - Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) - Hindi
• 1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya - Mrityunjay (Immortal) - Assamese
• 1980 - S. K. Pottakkat - Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a land) - Malayalam
• 1981 - Amrita Pritam - Kagaj te Canvas - Punjabi
• 1982 - Mahadevi Varma - Yama-Hindi
• 1983 - Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar - Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra)- Kannada
• 1984 - Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai - Malayalam
• 1985 - Pannalal Patel - Gujarati
• 1986 - Sachidanand Rout Roy - Oriya
• 1987 - Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) - ("Natsamrat") Marathi
• 1988 - Dr.C. Narayana Reddy - Telugu
• 1989 - Qurratulain Hyder - Urdu
• 1990 - V. K. Gokak - Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi - Kannada
• 1991 - Subhas Mukhopadhyay - Bengali
• 1992 - Naresh Mehta - Hindi
• 1993 - Sitakant Mahapatra - Oriya
• 1994 - U.R. Ananthamurthy - Kannada
• 1995 - M. T. 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 - D. Jayakanthan - Tamil
• 2003 - Vinda Karandikar - Marathi
• 2004 - Rahman Rahi - Kashmiri

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Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Kuvempu - (ಕುವೆಂಪು) is the pen name of a well-known Kannada writer/poet of the 20th century, Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 - 1994). ... Sri Ramayana Darshanam (ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಾಯಣ ದರ್ಶನಂ) is the most famous work and the magnum opus by Kuvempu based on the hindu epic Ramayana. ... For the television series by Ramanand Sagar, see Ramayan (TV series). ... Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ ) is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the southern state of Karnataka. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Umashankar Joshi (July 12, 1911 - December 19, 1988) is an eminent poet, scholar and writer, received the Jnanpith Award in 1967 for his contribution to Indian, especially Gujarati, literature. ... Gujarati (ગુજરાતી GujÇŽrātÄ«; also known as Gujerati, Gujarathi, Guzratee, and Guujaratee[3]) is an Indo-Aryan language descending from Sanskrit, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sumitranandan Pant (सुमित्रानन्‍दन पंत) (1900 - December 28, 1977) was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. ... Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the two official languages of India, the other being English. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Viswantha Satyanarayana (1895-1976), popularly known as the Kavi Samraat or the emperor of poetry, was a modern Telugu poet. ... Telugu (తెలుగు) is a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages) primarily spoken in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where it is the official language. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Bishnu Dey (18 July 1909—3 December 1982) was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, movie critique in the era of modernism, post-modernism. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Shivaram Karanth is a major Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist and thinker. ... Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ ) is one of the major Dravidian languages of India, spoken predominantly in the southern state of Karnataka. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana (सच्‍चिदानन्‍द हीरानन्‍द वात्‍स्‍यायन) (1911–1987), popularly known by his pen-name Ajneya (or Agyeya), was a pioneer of modern trends not only in the realm of Hindi poetry, but also fiction, criticism and journalism. ... Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the two official languages of India, the other being English. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Assamese ( ) (IPA: ) is a language spoken in the state of Assam in northeast India. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... S. K. Pottakkat (b. ... Malayalam (മലയാളം ) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Amrita Pritam (August 31, 1919 – October 31, 2005) (Punjabi: , Hindi: ) was a Punjabi poet and writer who migrated to India 1947, when the former British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. ... Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjābÄ« in ShāhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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Gujarati (ગુજરાતી GujÇŽrātÄ«; also known as Gujerati, Gujarathi, Guzratee, and Guujaratee[3]) is an Indo-Aryan language descending from Sanskrit, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Oriya is the official language of the Indian state of Orissa. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar, popularly known in Maharashtra, India, and in the larger Marathi community as Kusumagraj, was a well-known and renowned Marathi poet. ... Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar, popularly known in Maharashtra, India, and in the larger Marathi community as Kusumagraj, was a well-known and renowned Marathi poet. ... Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ... 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Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the two official languages of India, the other being English. ... This article is about the year. ... Punjabi (also Panjabi; in GurmukhÄ«, PanjābÄ« in ShāhmukhÄ«) is the language of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942-), also Indira Goswami, is a well know writer from Assam. ... Assamese ( ) (IPA: ) is a language spoken in the state of Assam in northeast India. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Rajendra Keshavlal Shah was a Gujarati author. ... Gujarati (ગુજરાતી GujÇŽrātÄ«; also known as Gujerati, Gujarathi, Guzratee, and Guujaratee[3]) is an Indo-Aryan language descending from Sanskrit, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Jayakanthan Jayakanthan (born April 24, 1934) is a Tamil writer, essayist, journalist, pamphleteer, film-maker and critic. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Govind Vinayak Karandikar (born August 23, 1918), better known as Vinda Karandikar is a famous Marathi poet. ... Marathi is one of the widely spoken languages of India, and has a long literary history. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rehman Rahi (born March 6, 1925, Srinagar) is an Indian poet, translator and critic. ... Kashmiri (कॉशुर, کٲشُر Koshur) is a northwestern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the valley of Kashmir, a region situated mostly in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. ...

See also

• Sahitya Akademi
• Sahu Jain

The Sahitya Akademi is an Indian organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. ... Sahu Jain is an important industrial family of India. ...

External links

• List of winners