Jnanpith Award

Jnanpith Award is the highest literary honour presented by the Government of India. The award carries a cheque for Indian Rupee 500,000, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Vagdevi. 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. 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 - G Sankara Kurup - ''Odakkuzhal'' (flute) - Malayalam * 1966 - Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya - ''Ganadevta'' - Bengali * 1967 - Kuvempu - ''Sri Ramayana Darshanam'' (Glimpses of Ramayana) - Kannada * 1967 - Uma Shankar 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 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 - Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar - ''Chikkaveera Rajendra'' - 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 - ''Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi'' - Kannada * 1991 - Subash 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 Literary awards India Honours System

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