jnanpith award winners – update

• Jnanpith award is a literary award in India and instituted in 1961.
• Jnanpith award carries a check 7 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati,the Indian Goddess of knowledge,music and arts.First award in 1965.

Recipients winner of the Jnanpith award 2016 update

1. 1965 :—-     GShankar Kurup (Malayalam).
2. 1966 :—-     TS Bandopadhyaya (Bengali).
3. 1967 :—-     Uma Shankar Joshi (Gujrarati).
4. 1968 :—-     Sumitra Nandan Pant (Hindi).
5. 1969 :—-     R S Firaq Gorakhpuri (Urdu).
6. 1970 :—-     Vishwanath Satyanarayan (Telugu).
7. 1971 :—-     Prisland Roy (Bengali).
8. 1972 :—-     Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar (Hindi).
9. 1973 :—-     Dr D R Bendre (kannada) and Gopinath Mohanty (Oriya).
10. 1974 :—-     V S Khandekar (Marathi).
11. 1975 :—-     PV Akilandam (Tamil).
12. 1976 :—-     Mrs Asha Purna Devi (Bengali).(First lady)
13. 1977 :—-     K Shiv Ram Karanth (Kannada).
14. 1978 :—-     H S Vatsayan  Ageya (hindi).
15. 1979 :—-     B k bhattacharya (assamese).
16. 1980 :—-     S K Pottekat (Malayalam).
17. 1981 :—-     Mrs Amrita Pritam (Punjab).
18. 1982 :—-     Mrs Mahadevi Verma (Hindi).
19. 1983 :—-     M V Layangar (Kannada).
20. 1984 :—-     T S Pillai (Malayalam).
21. 1985 :—-     Panna Lal Patel (Gujarati).
22. 1986 :—-     Sachida Nand Routory (Oriya).
23. 1987 :—-     V V Shirvadkar (Marathi).
24. 1988 :—-     C Narayana Reddy (Telegu).
25. 1989 :—-     Qurtul ain Haider (Urdu).
26. 1990 :—-     Vinayak Krishna Gokak ( kannada).
27. 1991 :—-      Subhash Mukhopadhyay (Bengali).
28. 1992 :—-      Naresh Mehta (Hindi).
29. 1993 :—-      Dr Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).
30. 1994 :—-      U R Anantha Murthy (Kannada).
31. 1995 :—-      M T Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam).
32. 1996 :—-      Smt Mahasweta devi (Bengali).
33. 1997 :—-      Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu).
34. 1998 :—-      Girish Karnad (Kannada).
35. 1999 :—-      Nirmal Verma (Hindi) and Gurdayal Singh (Punjab).
36. 2000 :—-      Dr Indira Goswami (Assamese).
37. 2001 :—-      Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati).
38. 2002 :—-      D Jaya Kanthan (Tamil).
39. 2003 :—-      Vinda Karandikar (Marathi).
40. 2004 :—-      Rehman Rahi (Kashmiri).
41. 2005 :—-      Kunwar Narayan (Hindi).
42. 2006 :—-      Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani) and Satyavrat Shastri (Sanskrit).
43. 2007 :—-      O N V Kurup (Malayalam).
44. 2008 :—-      Akhlaq Khan Shahryar (Urdu).
45. 2009 :—-      Amar Kant (Hindi) and  Shrilal Shukla (Hindi).
46. 2010 :—-      Chandrashekhara, Kambara (Kannada).
47. 2011 :—-      Pratibha Ray (Odiya).
48. 2012 :—-      Ravuri Bharadhwaja (Telugu).
49. 2013 :—-      Kedernath Singh (Hindi).
50. 2014 :—-      Bhalchandra Nemade(50th Jnanpith award) (Marathi).
51. 2015 :—- Raghuveer Chaudhary (Gujarat).
52. 2016 :—-     Shankha Ghosh (Bengali).
53. 2017 :—-    Krishna Sobti (Hindi).
54. 2018 :—-    Amitav Ghosh (English).
55. 2019 :—-  Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (Malayalam)