JNANPITH AWARD

JNANPITH AWARDS

The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". It was first awarded to G. Shankara Kurup in 1965.

JNANPITH LAUREATES

Name of Laureate : Year : Language

1. G. Sankara Kurup : (1965) Malayalam
2. T.S. Bandyopadhyaya : (1966) Bangla
3. Uma Shankar Joshi : (1967) Gujarati
4. K.V. Puttappa : (1967) Kannada
5. Sumitranandan Pant : (1968) Hindi
6. Firaq Gorakhpuri : (1969) Urdu
7. V. Satyanarayana : (1970) Telugu
8. Bishnu Dey : (1971) Bangla
9. Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar' : (1972) Hindi
10. D.R. Bendre : (1973) Kannada
11. Gopinath Mohanty : (1973) Oriya
12. V.S. Khandekar : (1974) Marathi
13. P.V. Akilandam : (1975) Tamil
14. Ashapurna Devi : (1976) Bangla
15. K.S. Karanth : (1977) Kannada
16. S.H.V. Ajneya : (1978) Hindi
17. B.K. Bhattacharya : (1979) Assamese
18. S.K. Pottekkatt : (1980) Malayalam,
19. Amrita Pritam : (1981) Punjabi
20. Mahadevi Varma : (1982) Hindi
21. Masti V. Iyengar : (1983) Kannada
22. Thakazhi S. Pillai : (1984) Malayalam
23. Pannalal Patel : (1985) Gujarati
24. Satchidanand Rautroy : (1986) Oriya
25. V.V.S. 'Kusumagraj' : (1987) Marathi
26. C. Narayana Reddy : (1988) Telugu
27. Qurratulain Hyder : (1989) Urdu
28. V.K. Gokak : (1990) Kannada
29. Subhash Mukhopadhyaya : (1991) Bangla
30. Naresh Mehta : (1992) Hindi
31. Sitakant Mahapatra : (1993) Oriya
32. U.R. Anantha Murthy : (1994) Kannada
33. M.T. Vasudevan Nair : (1995) Malayalam
34. Mahasveta Devi : (1996) Bangla
35. Ali Sardar Jafri : (1997) Urdu
36. Girish Karnad : (1998) Kannada
37. Nirmal Verma : (1999) Hindi
38. Gurdial Singh : (1999) Punjabi
39. Indira Goswami : (2000) Assamese
40. Rajendra Shah : (2001) Gujarati
41. D. Jayakanthan : (2002) Tamil
42. Vinda Karandikar : (2003) Marathi
43. Rahman Rahi : (2004) Kashmiri
44. Kunwar Narain : (2005) Hindi
45. Satyavrat Shastri : (2006) Sanskrit
46. Ravindra Kelekar : (2006) Konkani
47. O. N. V. Kurup : (2007) Malayalam
48. Akhlaq Khan Shahryar : (2008) Urdu
49. Shrilal Shukla : (2009) Hindi
50. Amarkant : (2009) Hindi
51. Chandrasekhar Kambar : (2010) Kannada
52. Pratibha Ray : (2011) Oriya
53. Ravuri Bharadwaja : (2012) Telegu
54. Kedarnath Singh : (2013) Hindi
55. Bhalachandra Nemade : (2014) Marathi
56. Raghuveer Chaudhary : (2015) Gujarati
57. Sankha Ghosh : (2016) Bengali
58. Smt. Krishna Sobti : (2017) Hindi

59. Amitav Ghosh : (2018) English

Related Information and Note : About Amitav Ghosh :
Shri Amitav Ghosh is an eminent English litterateur. Shri Ghosh, born in 1956 in Kolkata, West Bengal, is a path-breaking novelist. Some of his celebrated creation includes The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and the Ibis trilogy that includes Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire.

He is the recipient of many coveted awards like Sahitya Academy Award, Ananda Puraskar, Crossword Book Prize, Prix Medicis Award from France. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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