Bhartiya Jnanpith Award is conferred for the best literary writing by an Indian citizen in a language listed in Eight Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
The award was instituted in 1961.
It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the newspaper The Times of India.
It carries a cheque for ₹11 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.
Starting with the Bengali writer Ashapoorna Devi in 1976, seven women writers have won the award so far.
Laureates Awarded, by the Jnanpith Award, as on date:
1. G. Sankara Kurup (1965) Malayalam
2. T.S. Bandyopadhyaya (1966) Bangla
3. Uma Shankar Joshi (1967) Gujarati
4. K.V. Puttappa (1967) Kannada
5. Sumitranandan Pant (1968) Hindi
6. Firaq Gorakhpuri (1969) Urdu
7. V. Satyanarayana (1970) Telugu
8. Bishnu Dey (1971) Bangla
9. Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar' (1972) Hindi
10. D.R. Bendre (1973) Kannada,
11. Gopinath Mohanty (1973) Oriya
12. V.S. Khandekar (1974) Marathi
13. P.V. Akilandam (1975) Tamil
14. Ashapurna Devi (1976) Bangla
15. K.S. Karanth (1977) Kannada
16. S.H.V. Ajneya (1978) Hindi
17. B.K. Bhattacharya (1979) Assamese
18. S.K. Pottekkatt (1980) Malayalam,
19. Amrita Pritam (1981) Punjabi
20. Mahadevi Varma (1982) Hindi
21. Masti V. Iyengar (1983) Kannada
22. Thakazhi S. Pillai (1984) Malayalam
23. Pannalal Patel (1985) Gujarati
24. Satchidanand Rautroy (1986) Oriya
25. V.V.S. 'Kusumagraj' (1987) Marathi
26. C. Narayana Reddy (1988) Telugu
27. Qurratulain Hyder (1989) Urdu
28. V.K. Gokak (1990) Kannada
29. Subhash Mukhopadhyaya (1991) Bangla
30. Naresh Mehta (1992) Hindi
31. Sitakant Mahapatra (1993) Oriya
32. U.R. Anantha Murthy (1994) Kannada
33. M.T. Vasudevan Nair (1995) Malayalam
34. Mahasveta Devi (1996) Bangla
35. Ali Sardar Jafri (1997) Urdu
36. Girish Karnad (1998) Kannada
37. Nirmal Verma (1999) Hindi
38. Gurdial Singh (1999) Punjabi
39. Indira Goswami (2000) Assamese
40. Rajendra Shah (2001) Gujarati
41. D. Jayakanthan (2002) Tamil
42. Vinda Karandikar (2003) Marathi
43. Rahman Rahi (2004) Kashmiri
44. Kunwar Narain (2005) Hindi
45. Satyavrat Shastri (2006) Sanskrit
46. Ravindra Kelekar (2006) Konkani
47. O. N. V. Kurup (2007) Malayalam
48. Akhlaq Khan Shahryar (2008) Urdu
49. Shrilal Shukla (2009) Hindi
50. Amarkant (2009) Hindi
51. Chandrasekhar Kambar (2010) Kannada
52. Pratibha Ray (2011) Oriya
53. Ravuri Bharadwaja (2012) Telegu
54. Kedarnath Singh (2013) Hindi
55. Bhalachandra Nemade (2014) Marathi
56. Raghuveer Chaudhary (2015) Gujarati
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