Jnanpith Awardees Of India

Jnanpith Awardees of India G.Shankara Kurup for his poems Odakkuzhal in Malayalam 1965 Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya for the novel Ganadevta in Bengali 1966 Dr K.V Puttappa for Sri Ramayana Darshanam in Kannada 1967 Uma Shankar Joshi for Nishitha in Gujarati 1967 Sumitra Nandan Pant for Chidambara in Hindi 1968 Firaq Gorakpuri for Gul-e-Naghma in Urdu 1969 Vishwanath Satyanarayan for Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu in Telugu 1970 Bishnu Dey for Smriti Satta Bhavishyat in Bengali 1971 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar for Urvashi in Hindi 1972 Dattatreya Ramachandran Bendre for Nakutanti in Kannada 1973 Gopinath Mohanty for Mattimatal in Oriya 1973 Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar for Yayati in Marathi 1974 P.V Akilandam for his novel Chittirappavai in Tamil 1975 Asha Purna Devi for Pratham Pratisruti, in Bengali 1976 K Shivaram Karanth for Mukajjiya Kanasugalu in Kannada 1977 S.H.V Ajneya for his novel Kitni Navon men Kitni Bar in Hindi 1978 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya for his novel Mrityunjay in Assamese 1979 S.K Pottekkatt for his novel Oru Desattinte Katha in Malayalam 1980 Amrita Pritam for her literary collection Kagaz te Canvas in Punjabi 1981 Mahadevi Varma (Hindi) 1982 Masti Venkatesh Ayengar (Kannada) 1983 Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai (Malayalam) 1984 Pannalal Patel (Gujarati) 1985 Sachidanand Rout Roy (Oriya) 1986 Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj (Marathi) 1987 Dr C Narayanan Reddy (Telugu) 1988 Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu) 1989 V.K Gokak (Kannada)

1990 Subhash Mukhopadhyay (Bengali) 1991 Naresh Mehta (Hindi) 1992 Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya) 1993 UR Anantha Murthy (Kannada) 1994 M.T Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam) 1995 Mahesweta Devi (Bengali) 1996 Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu) 1997 Girish Karnad (Kannada) 1998 * From 1982, the award was given for overall contribution to literature