Explore the Jnanpith Awards Winners List from 1965 to 2024, with Major Key Facts. The Jnanpith Award is a prestigious literary award in India, given annually to an author for their outstanding contributions to literature. The award has been given since 1961 in various Indian languages.
The most recent recipients of the award for the year 2023 are: Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya for Sanskrit and Shri Gulzar
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Question: Which Indian state has received the highest number of Jnanpith Awards?
A. Maharashtra
B. Karnataka
C. Tamil Nadu
D. West Bengal
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To obtain further information and a comprehensive list of previous winners, please refer to this article. Furthermore, you can also discover which language has received the most Jnanpith awards and all relevant facts about the Jnanpith award, also known as the Gayanpith award.
Full list of Jnanpith Awards Winners 1965 to 2023
Year | Recipient(s) | Language(s) |
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1965 (1st) | G. Sankara Kurup | Malayalam |
1966 (2nd) | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Bengali |
1967 (3rd) | Umashankar Joshi | Gujarati |
1967 (3rd) | Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa ‘Kuvempu’ | Kannada |
1968 (4th) | Sumitranandan Pant | Hindi |
1969 (5th) | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu |
1970 (6th) | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Telugu |
1971 (7th) | Bishnu Dey | Bengali |
1972 (8th) | Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ | Hindi |
1973 (9th) | D. R. Bendre | Kannada |
1973 (9th) | Gopinath Mohanty | Odia |
1974 (10th) | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Marathi |
1975 (11th) | Akilan | Tamil |
1976 (12th) | Ashapoorna Devi | Bengali |
1977 (13th) | K. Shivaram Karanth | Kannada |
1978 (14th) | Sachchidananda Vatsyayan | Hindi |
1979 (15th) | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Assamese |
1980 (16th) | S. K. Pottekkatt | Malayalam |
1981 (17th) | Amrita Pritam | Punjabi |
1982 (18th) | Mahadevi Varma | Hindi |
1983 (19th) | Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Kannada |
1984 (20th) | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam |
1985 (21st) | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati |
1986 (22nd) | Sachidananda Routray | Odia |
1987 (23rd) | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar ‘Kusumagraj’ | Marathi |
1988 (24th) | C. Narayana Reddy | Telugu |
1989 (25th) | Qurratulain Hyder | Urdu |
1990 (26th) | Vinayaka Krishna Gokak | Kannada |
1991 (27th) | Subhash Mukhopadhyay | Bengali |
1992 (28th) | Naresh Mehta | Hindi |
1993 (29th) | Sitakant Mahapatra | Odia |
1994 (30th) | U. R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada |
1995 (31st) | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam |
1996 (32nd) | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali |
1997 (33rd) | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu |
1998 (34th) | Girish Karnad | Kannada |
1999 (35th) | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |
1999 (35th) | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi |
2000 (36th) | Mamoni Raisom Goswami | Assamese |
2001 (37th) | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati |
2002 (38th) | Jayakanthan | Tamil |
2003 (39th) | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi |
2004 (40th) | Rehman Rahi | Kashmiri |
2005 (41st) | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi |
2006 (42nd) | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani |
2006 (42nd) | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit |
2007 (43rd) | O. N. V. Kurup | Malayalam |
2008 (44th) | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ‘Shahryar’ | Urdu |
2009 (45th) | Amarkant | Hindi |
2009 (45th) | Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi |
2010 (46th) | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Kannada |
2011 (47th) | Pratibha Ray | Odia |
2012 (48th) | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu |
2013 (49th) | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi |
2014 (50th) | Bhalchandra Nemade | Marathi |
2015 (51st) | Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati |
2016 (52nd) | Shankha Ghosh | Bengali |
2017 (53rd) | Krishna Sobti | Hindi |
2018 (54th) | Amitav Ghosh | English |
2019 (55th) | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | Malayalam |
2021 (56th) | Nilamani Phookan | Assamese |
2022 (57th) | Damodar Mauzo | Konkani |
2023 (58th) | Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya | Sanskrit |
Shri Gulzar | Urdu |
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✅ 58TH JNANPITH AWARD WINNER 2023
💢 The 58th Jnanpith Award for the year 2023 has been awarded to Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya for Sanskrit and Shri Gulzar for Urdu.
💢 Jagadguru Rambhadracharya, the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth in Chitrakoot, is a distinguished Hindu spiritual leader, educator, and author of over 100 books.
💢 Shri Gulzar, celebrated for his contributions to Hindi cinema, is recognized as one of the finest Urdu poets. 🏆📚
✅ 58TH JNANPITH AWARD WINNER 2023
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Number of award recipients by language
☛ As of 2023, Hindi has received the most Jnanpith awards with a total of 11 awarded in the language. You can find the list below.
▪ Assamese – 3 times
▪ Konkani – 2 times
▪ Malayalam – 6 times
▪ Bengali – 6 times
▪ English – 1 time
▪ Gujarati – 4 times
▪ Hindi – 11 times
▪ Marathi – 4 times
▪ Kannada – 8 times
▪ Telugu – 3 times
▪ Urdu – 4 times
▪ Odia – 4 times
• The Jnanpith Award has only been given once to an English-language writer, Amitav Ghosh, in 2018.
• In 2018, Amitav Ghosh received the prestigious 54th Jnanpith Award for his exceptional literary contributions in the English language.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Answer: Eminent Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo has been conferred with the 57th Jnanpith Award in 2021.
Answer: Nilamani Phookan has been conferred with the 56th Jnanpith Award in 2020.
Answer: G. Sankara Kurup (in 1965)
Answer: Until 2021, the majority of Jnanpith Awards had been presented for works in the Hindi language. However, up until that point, the Jnanpith Award had only been granted in English once. In 2018, Amitav Ghosh was honored as the recipient of the 54th Jnanpith Award for his contributions to English literature.
Answer: Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”.
The latest awardees of the Jnanpith Award include Sanskrit scholar Rambhadracharya and Urdu writer, and renowned Bollywood lyricist Gulzar, jointly honored for their exceptional contributions to the field of literature in the year 2023.
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