Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Winners Of Jnanpith Award (Highest Literary Award Of India)


1956 G. Sankara Kurup ('Odakuzhal' - Malayalam)

1966 Tarashankar Bandopadhayay ('Gandevta' - Bengali)

1967 Uma Shankar Joshi ('Nishitha' - Gujarati) and K.V. Puttappa (Ramayana Darshanam - Kannada)

1968 Sumitranadan Pant ('Chidambara' - Hindi)

1969 Firaq Gorakpuri ('Gul-e-Nagma' - Urdu)

1970 Viswantha Satyanarayana ('Ramayana Kalpa vrikshamu' - Telugu)

1971 Bishnu Dey ('Smriti - Satta - Bhavishyat' - Bengali)

1972 R.S. Dinkar ('Urvashi' - Hindi)

1973 D.R. Bendre ('Nakutanti' - Kannada) and Gopinath Mohanty ('Matimatal' - Oriya)

1974 V.S. Khandekar ('Yayati' - Marathi)

1975 P.V. Akilandam ('Chittirappavai' - Tamil)

1976 Ashapurna Devi ('Pratham Pratisruti' - Bengali)


Ashapurna Devi
Ashapurna Devi

1977 K.S. Karanth ('Mukajjiya Kanasugalu' - Kannada)

1978 S.H.V. Ajneya ('Kitni Navon Mein Kitni Baar' - Hindi)

1979 B.K. Bhattacharya ('Mrityunjaya' - Assamese)

1980 S.K. Pottekkatt ('Oru Desattinte Katha' - Malayalam)

1981 Amrita Pritam ('Kagaz Te Kanvas' - Punjabi)

1982 Mahadevi Varma (Hindi)



1983 Masti Vekatesa Ayyanagat (Kannada)

1984 Takazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam)

1985 Pannalal Patel (Gujarati)

1986 S. Rout (Oriya)

1987 V.V. Shriwadkar (Marathi)

1988 C. Narayana Reddy (Telugu)

1989 Qurratul-ain-Haider (Urdu)

1990 V.K. Gokak (Kannada)

1991 Subash Mukhopadhyay (Bengali)

1992 Naresh Mehta (Hindi)

1993 Sitakant Mohapatra (Oriya)

1994 U.R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada)

1995 M.T. Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam)

1996 Mahasweta Devi (Bengali)

1997 Ali Sardar Jaffrey (Urdu)

1998 Girish Karnad (Kannada)

1999 Nirmal Verma (Hindi) and Gurdayal Singh (Punjabi)

2000 Indira Goswami (Assamese)

2001 Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati)



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