Jnanpith Awards,Awardees,

Jnanpith Awards

1965 -G Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute) -Malayalam

1966 -Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Ganadevta- Bengali

1967 -Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) Sri Ramayana Darshanam -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 (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) -Kannada

1973 -Gopinath Mohanty Paraja -Oriya

1974 -Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati -Marathi

1975 -P.V.Akilan Chitttrappavai -Tamil

1976 -Asha Purna Devi Pratham Pratisruti -Bengali

1977 -K.Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) -Kannada

1978 -Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan '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 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 Kayar {Coir} -Malayalam

1985- Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai -Gujarati

1986 -Sachidananda Rout Roy -Oriya

1987 -Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) Natsamrat -Marathi

1988 -Dr.C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara -Telugu

1989 -Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar -Urdu

1990 -V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi -Kannada

1991 -Subhas Mukhopadhyay -Bengali

1992 -Naresh Mehta -Hindi

1993 -Sitakant Mahapatra "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92" -Oriya

1994 -U.R. Ananthamurthy -Kannada

1995 -M. T. Vasudevan Nair Randamoozham [second chance} -Malayalam

1996 -Mahasweta Devi -Bengali

1997 -Ali Sardar Jafri -Urdu

1998 -Girish Karnad "for his contributions to modern Indian drama" -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 Ashtadarshana (poetry) -Marathi

2004 -Rahman Rahi Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz -Kashmiri

2005 -Kunwar Narayan -Hindi

2006 -Ravindra Kelekar -Konkani

2006 -Satya Vrat Shastri -Sanskrit