Jnanpith Awards 2021-1965 Complete List of Winners

In this article, we have included a list of Jnanpith awards winners and the languages used by them. we have also included a list of winners of all these years. Read the full article to know more

Jnanpith Awards in India

Jnanpith award is the oldest Indian literary award which is annually presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith to an author who has an outstanding contribution to literature. It is the oldest and the highest literary award in India and this award is only given to Indian authors who write in Indian languages. The Indian languages included in the Jnanpith award are according to the 8 schedules of the constitution of India. The eight schedules to the constitution of India consist of 22 languages, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Manipuri, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Santali, Sindhi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

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List of Award winners from 1965-2021

Year	Winners	language
2021	Damodar Mauzo	Konkani
2020	Nilamani Phookan	Assamese
2019	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri	Malayalam
2018	Amitav Ghosh	English
2017	Krishna Sobti	Hindi
2016	Shanka Ghosh	Bengali
2015	Dr. Raghuvir Chaudhari	Gujarati
2014	Bhalchandra Nemade	Marathi
2013	Kedarnath Singh	Hindi
2012	Ravauri Bharadwaj	Telugu
2011	Pratibha Ray	Odia
2010	Chandrashekhar Kambara	Kannada
2009	Shrilal Shukla Amar Kant	Hindi
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan	Urdu
2007	Dr. O.N.V Kurup	Malayalam
2006	Satya Vrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2006	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2005	Kunwar Narayan	Hindi
2004	Rehman Rahi	Kashmiri
2003	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2002	D. Jayakanthan	Tamil
2001	Rajendra Keshavial Shah	Gujarati
2000	Indira Goswami	Assamese
1999	Nirmal Verma	Hindi
1999	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
1999	Nirmal Verma	Hindi
1998	Girish Karnad	Kannada
1997	Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu
1996	Mahasweta Devi	Bengali
1995	Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam
1994	U. R. Ananthamurthy	Kannada
1993	Sitakant Mahapatra	Oriya
1992	Naresh Mehta	Hindi
1991	Subhas Mukhopadhyay	Bengali
1990	Vinayaka Krishna Gokak	Kannada
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1988	Dr. C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar	Marathi
1986	Sachidananda Routray	Oriya
1985	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1983	Masti Venkatesh Iyengar	Kannada
1982	Mahadevi Varma	Hindi
1981	Amrita Pritam	Punjabi
1980	S. K. Pottekkatt	Malayalam
1979	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese
1978	Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan ‘Ajneya’	Hindi
1977	K. Shivaram Karanth	Kannada
1976	Ashapurna Devi	Bengali
1975	P. V. Akilan	Tamil
1974	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Marathi
1973	Gopinath Mohanty	Oriya
1973	Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre	Kannada
1972	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Hindi
1971	Bishnu Dey	Bengali
1970	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Telugu
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1968	Sumitranandan Pant	Hindi
1967	Umashankar Joshi	Gujarati
1967	Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa	Kannada
1966	Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay	Bengali
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam

Important Facts about Jnanpith Awards

The first Jnanpith award winner was G. Shankara Kurup, in 1965. He was a well-known Indian poet literary critic of Malayalam literature and essayist, he is also known as “The Great Poet G”. The first English writer who won the Jnanpith award is Amitav Ghosh in 2018. The first woman to win the Jnanpith award is Ashapurna Devi 1976, who was a Bengali writer. The most recent Jnanpith award winners in 2021 and 2020 were Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr. and Damodar Mauzo who is a Konkani novelist.

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