Jnanpith Award Winners (1965–2016)

Jnanpith Award Winners (1965–2016)

• 1965 : G. Sankara Kurup – Odakkuzhal [Flute] (Malayalam)
• 1966 : Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya – Ganadevta (Bengali)
• 1967 : Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) – Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Kannada)
• 1967 : Umashankar Joshi – Nishitha (Gujarati)
• 1968 : Sumitranandan Pant – Chidambara (Hindi)
• 1969 : Firaq Gorakhpuri – Gul-e-Naghma (Urdu)
• 1970 : Viswanatha Satyanarayana – Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu [A resourceful tree:Ramayana] (Telugu)
• 1971 : Bishnu Dey Smriti – Satta Bhavishyat (Bengali)
• 1972 : Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ – Urvashi (Hindi)
• 1973 : Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre – Nakutanti [Naku Thanthi (Four Strings)] (Kannada)
• 1973 : Gopinath Mohanty – Paraja (Oriya)
• 1974 : Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar – Yayati (Marathi)
• 1975 : P. V. Akilan – Chitttrappavai (Tamil)
• 1976 : Ashapurna Devi – Pratham Pratisruti (Bengali)
• 1977 : K. Shivaram Karanth – Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Mookajjis dreams] (Kannada)
• 1978 : Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan ‘Ajneya’ – Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar [How many times in many boats?] (Hindi)
• 1979 : Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya – Mrityunjay [Immortal] (Assamese)
• 1980 : S. K. Pottekkatt – Oru Desathinte Katha [Story of a land] (Malayalam)
• 1981 : Amrita Pritam – Kagaj te Canvas (Punjabi)
• 1982 : Mahadevi Varma – Yama (Hindi)
• 1983 : Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar – Chikkaveera Rajendra [Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra] (Kannada)
• 1984 : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai – Kayar [Coir] (Malayalam)
• 1985 : Pannalal Patel – Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (Gujarati)
• 1986 : Sachidananda Rout Roy (Oriya)
• 1987 : Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) – Natsamrat (Marathi)
• 1988 : Dr.C. Narayana Reddy – Vishwambhara (Telugu)
• 1989 : Qurratulain Hyder – Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar (Urdu)
• 1990 : V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) – Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi (Kannada)
• 1991 : Subhas Mukhopadhyay – Padati (Bengali)
• 1992 : Naresh Mehta (Hindi)
• 1993 : Sitakant Mahapatra – “for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92” (Oriya)
• 1994 : U. R. Ananthamurthy – for his contributions to (Kannada) literature (Kannada)
• 1995 : M. T. Vasudevan Nair – Randamoozham [Second Chance] (Malayalam)
• 1996 : Mahasweta Devi – Hajar Churashir Ma (Bengali)
• 1997 : Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu)
• 1998 : Girish Karnad – “for his contributions to (Kannada) literature and for contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)” (Kannada)
• 1999 : Nirmal Verma (Hindi)
• 1999 : Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)
• 2000 : Indira Goswami (Assamese)
• 2001 : Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati)
• 2002 : D. Jayakanthan (Tamil)
• 2003 : Vinda Karandikar – Ashtadarshana (poetry) (Marathi)
• 2004 : Rahman Rahi – Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz (Kashmiri)
• 2005 : Kunwar Narayan (Hindi)
• 2006 : Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani)
• 2006 : Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit)
• 2007 : O. N. V. Kurup (Malayalam)
• 2008 : Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ‘Shahryar’ (Urdu)
• 2009 : Amar Kant (Hindi)
• 2009 : Shrilal Shukla (Hindi)
• 2010 : Chandrashekhara Kambara – for his contributions to Kannada literature (Kannada)
• 2011 : Pratibha Ray – Yajnaseni (Oriya)
• 2012 : Ravuri Bharadhwaja – Paakudurallu (Telugu)
• 2013 : Kedarnath Singh – Akaal Mein Saras (Hindi)
• 2014 : Bhalchandra Nemade – Hindu: Jagnyachi Samrudhha Adgal (Marathi)
• 2015 : Raghuveer Chaudhari – For his contributions to Gujarati literature (Gujarati)
• 2016 : Shankha Ghosh – (Bengali)