Winners of Gyanpeeth Award/ Jnanpith Award List-All Languages

Winners of Gyanpeeth Award or known as Jnanpith Award for all languages are listed below. Gyanpeeth Award Winners of Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati Languages are listed below. The name of winner of Malayalam language is Sankara Kurup. Full List of Jnanpith Award Winners-

Award  Year Works Done Language  Winners Name
1965 Odakkuzhal Malayalam G. Sankara Kurup
1966 Ganadevta Bengali Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
1967 Sri Ramayana Darshanam Kannada Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu)
1967 Nishitha Gujarati Umashankar Joshi
1968 Chidambara Hindi Sumitranandan Pant
1969 Gul-e-Naghma Urdu Firaq Gorakhpuri
1970 Ramayana Kalpavrukshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) Telugu Viswanatha Satyanarayana
1971 Smriti Satta Bhavishyat Bengali Bishnu Dey
1972 Urvashi Hindi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
1973 Nakutanti (Four Strings) Kannada Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre
1973 Matimatal Oriya Gopinath Mohanty
1974 Yayati Marathi Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
1975 Chitttrappavai Tamil P. V. Akilan
1976 Pratham Pratisruti Bengali Ashapurna Devi
1977 Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) Kannada K. Shivaram Karanth
1978 Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in how many boats?) Hindi Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
1979 Mrityunjay (Conquering Death) Assamese Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
1980 Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a Land) Malayalam S. K. Pottekkatt
1981 Kagaj te Canvas Punjabi Amrita Pritam
1982 Yama Hindi Mahadevi Varma
1983 Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) Kannada Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
1984 Kayar (Coir) Malayalam Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
1985 Maanavi Ni Bhavaai Gujarati Pannalal Patel
1986 Oriya Sachidananda Routray
1987 For his contributions to Marathi literature Marathi Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)
1988 Viswambhara Telugu C. Narayana Reddy
1989 Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar Urdu Qurratulain Hyder
1990 Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi Kannada V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak)
1991 Padatik (The Foot Soldier) Bengali Subhas Mukhopadhyay
1992 Hindi Naresh Mehta
1993 For outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973–92 Oriya Sitakant Mahapatra
1994 For his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada U. R. Ananthamurthy
1995 Randamoozham Malayalam M. T. Vasudevan Nair
1996 Hajar Churashir Maa Bengali Mahasweta Devi
1997 Urdu Ali Sardar Jafri
1998 For his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati) Kannada Girish Karnad
1999 Hindi Nirmal Verma
1999 Punjabi Gurdial Singh
2000 Datal Hatir Unye Khuwa Howdah (The Termite Eaten Howdah of the Tusker) Assamese Indira Goswami
2001 Dhwani Gujarati Rajendra Shah
2002 Novels: Oru Manidhan Oru Vidu Oru Ulakam (A Man, a Home and a World), Oru Nadikai Nadakam Parkkiral (Actress watches the Act), Parisukkup Po (Go to Paris), Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (Certain people at certain times). More than 200 short stories. Non fiction: Oru Ilakkiyavaathiyin Arasiyal Anubhavangal ((A Literary Man’s Political Experiences), Oru Ilakkiyavaathiyin Aanmeega Anubhavangal (A Literary Man’s Spiritual Experiences) Tamil D. Jayakanthan
2003 For his contributions to Marathi literature Marathi Vinda Karandikar
2004 Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz Kashmiri Rehman Rahi
2005 Hindi Kunwar Narayan
2006 Konkani Ravindra Kelekar
2006 Sanskrit Satya Vrat Shastri
2007 For his contributions to Malayalam literature Malayalam O. N. V. Kurup
2008 Urdu Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ‘Shahryar’
2009 Hindi Amar Kant
2009 Hindi Sri Lal Sukla
2010 For his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada Chandrashekhara Kambara
2011 Yajnaseni Oriya Pratibha Ray
2012 Paakudurallu Telugu Ravuri Bharadhwaja
2013 Akaal Mein Saras Hindi Kedarnath Singh
2014 Hindu: Jagnyachi Samrudhha Adgal Marathi Bhalchandra Nemade

1 thought on “Winners of Gyanpeeth Award/ Jnanpith Award List-All Languages”

  1. I’m so glad to see Sanskrit on the list of languages that have won the Jnanpith Award! It’s a language that I’m very interested in and I’m glad to see it getting recognition.

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