The Jnanpith Award

All the past awardees from 1965 to now.

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Jnanpith Award Winners
The Jnanpith Award, instituted on May 22, 1961, is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution. From 1982 onwards, the award is given for overall contribution to literature; earlier a specific work used to be cited.

Year	Language	Winner	Book
2001	Gujarati	Rajendra Keshavlal Shah
2000	Assamese	Indira Goswami
1999	Punjabi	Gurdial Singh
1999	Hindi	Nirmal Verma
1998	Kannada	Girish Karnad
1997	Urdu	Ali Sardar Jafri
1996	Bengali	Mahesweta Devi
1995	Malayalam	M.T. Vasudevan Nair
1994	Kannada	U.R. Anantha Murthy
1993	Oriya	Sitakant Mahapatra
1992	Hindi	Naresh Mehta
1991	Bengali	Subhash Mukhopadhyay
1990	Kannada	V.K Gokak
1989	Urdu	Qurratulain Hyder
1988	Telugu	Dr C. Narayanan Reddy
1987	Marathi	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj
1986	Oriya	Sachidanand Rout Roy
1985	Gujarati	Pannalal Patel
1984	Malayalam	Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai
1983	Kannada	Masti Venkatesh Ayengar
1982	Hindi	Mahadevi Varma
1981	Punjabi	Amrita Pritam	Kagaj te Canvas
1980	Malayalam	S.K Pottekkatt	Oru Desattinte Katha
1979	Assamese	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Mrityunjay
1978	Hindi	S.H.V Ajneya	Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar
1977	Kannada	K Shivaram Karanth	Mukkajjiya Kanasugalu
1976	Bengali	Asha Purna Devi	Pratham Pratisruti
1975	Tamil	P.V Akilandam	Chitttrappavai
1974	Marathi	Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar	Yayati
1973	Oriya	Gopinath Mohanty	Mattimatal
1973	Kannada	Dattatreya Ramachandran Bendre	Nakutanti
1972	Hindi	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Urvashi
1971	Bengali	Bishnu Dey	Smriti Satta Bhavishyat
1970	Telugu	Vishwanath Satyanarayan	Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu
1969	Urdu	Firaq Gorakpuri	Gul-e-Naghma
1968	Hindi	Sumitra Nandan Pant	Chidambara
1967	Gujarati	Uma Shankar Joshi	Nishitha
1967	Kannada	Dr K.V Puttappa	Sri Ramayana Darshanam
1966	Bengali	Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya	Ganadevta
1965	Malayalam	G. Shankara Kurup	Odakkuzhal