Jnanpith Award Winner
The Jnanpith Award is one of the India's highest literary award. It is presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". The award is given to only Indian writers for the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English. The award was first given in the year 1965 to Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup. Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi is the first woman to win the award.
| Year | Name | Works | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | G. Sankara Kurup | Odakkuzhal | Malayalam |
| 1966 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | 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 Kalpavrukshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) | Telugu |
| 1971 | Bishnu Dey | Smriti Satta Bhavishyat | Bengali |
| 1972 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Urvashi | Hindi |
| 1973 | Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre | Nakutanti (Four Strings) | Kannada |
| 1973 | Gopinath Mohanty | Matimatal | 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 Vatsyayan | Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in how 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 | Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | 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 Routray | Oriya | |
| 1987 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) | For contributions in Marathi literature | Marathi |
| 1988 | C. Narayana Reddy | Viswambhara | Telugu |
| 1989 | Qurratulain Hyder | Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar | Urdu |
| 1990 | V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) | Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi | Kannada |
| 1991 | Subhas Mukhopadhyay | Padatik (The Foot Soldier) | Bengali |
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | For contribution to Hindi literature | Hindi |
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | For contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature | Oriya |
| 1994 | U. R. Ananthamurthy | For contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada |
| 1995 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | For contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam |
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Hajar Churashir Maa | Bengali |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu | |
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | For contributions to Kannada literature and theatre | Kannada |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi | |
| 1999 | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | |
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese | |
| 2001 | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati | |
| 2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil | |
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | For contributions to Marathi literature | Marathi |
| 2004 | Rehman 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 | For contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam |
| 2008 | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar | Urdu | |
| 2009 | Amar Kant | Hindi | |
| 2009 | Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi | |
| 2010 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | For contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada |
| 2011 | Pratibha Ray | Oriya | |
| 2012 | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | For notable contribution to Telugu literature | Telugu |
| 2013 | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi | |
| 2014 | Balachandra Nemade | For notable contribution to Marathi literature | Marathi |
| 2015 | Raghuveer Chaudhari | For notable contribution to Gujarati literature | Gujarati |
| 2016 | Shankha Ghosh | For notable contribution to Bengali literature | Bengali |
| 2017 | Krishna Sobti | For notable contribution to Hindi literature | Hindi |
| 2018 | Amitav Ghosh | For notable contribution to English literature | English |
| 2019 | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | For notable contribution to Malayalam literature | Malayalam |
| 2021 | Nilmani Phukan | For notable contribution to Assamese literature | Assamese |
| 2022 | Damodar Mauzo | For notable contribution to Konkani literature | Konkani |
| 2023 | Rambhadracharya | For notable contribution to Sanskrit literature | Sanskrit |
| 2023 | Gulzar | For notable contribution to Urdu literature | Urdu |
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