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Jnanpith Award (pronounced Gyanpeeth Award) is the highest literary honour presented by the Government of India. The award was instituted in 1961 and the first award was given to the Malayalam writer G Shankara Kurup in 1965. An Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. The award carries a cheque for Rs. 250,000, a citation and a bronze replica of Vagdevi .
Before 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer. From 1982, the award is being given for overall contribution to Indian literature. So far Kannada writers have won 7 awards which is the highest for any language. Hindi writers have won 6 awards.
List of Awardees
(Year - Name - Works - Language)
- 1965 - Shankara Kurup - Odakkuzhal (flute) - Malayalam
- 1966 - Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya - Ganadevta - Bengali
- 1967 - Dr. K.V. Puttappa - Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Glimpses of Ramayana) - Kannada
- 1967 - Uma Shankar Joshi - Nishitha - Gujarati
- 1968 - Sumitranandan PantPant, Sumitranandan Sumitranandan Pant ( ( 1900 December 28, 1977) was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. He is considered as one ofthe major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature. Pant mostly wrote in Sanskritized Hindi. Pant author - Chidambara - Hindi
- 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i - Firaq Gorakhpuri - Gul-e-Naghma - Urdu
- 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January - Viswanatha SatyanarayanaViswantha Satyanarayana ( 1895- 1976), popularly known as the Kavi Samraat or the empepror of poetry, was a modern Telugu poet. He was born in the village of Nandamuru, Andhra Pradesh, India. Viswanatha was a disciple of the " Tirupati Venkata Kavulu" duo - Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) - Telugu
- 1971 - Bishnu Dey - Smriti Satta Bhavishyat - Bengali
- 1972 - Ramdhari Singh Dinkar - Urvashi - Hindi
- 1973 - Dattatreya Ramachandaran Bendre - Nakutanti - Kannada
- 1973 - Gopinath Mohanty - Mattimatal - Oriya
- 1974 - Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar - Yayati - Marathi
- 1975 - P.V.Akilandam - Chitttrappavai - Tamil
- 1976 - Asha Purna Devi - Pratham Pratisruti - Bengali
- 1977 - K.Shivaram Karanth - Mukkajjiya Kanasugalu (Nanny's dreams) - Kannada
- 1978 - S.H.V. Ajneya - Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) - Hindi
- 1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya - Mrityunjay (Immortal) - Assamese
- 1980 - S.K. Pottekkatt - Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a nation) - Malayalam
- 1981 - Amrita Pritam - Kagaj te Canvas - Punjabi
- 1982 - Mahadevi Varma - Hindi
- 1983 - Masti Venkatesh Ayengar - Kannada
- 1984 - Takazhi Sivashankara Pillai - Malayalam
- 1985 - Pannalal Patel - Gujarati
- 1986 - Sachidanand Rout Roy - Oriya
- 1987 - Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj - Marathi
- 1988 - Dr. C. Narayana Reddy - Telugu
- 1989 - Qurratulain Hyder - Urdu
- 1990 - V.K. Gokak - Kannada
- 1991 - Subash Mukhopadhyay - Bengali
- 1992 - Niresh 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
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