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 |
