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List of Bharatiya Gyanpith Awards (Jnanpith Award) Winners

List of Bharatiya Gyanpith Awards (Jnanpith Award) Winners

Year 1965:
1. Name of winner: G. Sankara Kurup
Contribution & Work: Odakkuzhal [Flute]
Language: Malayalam
Year1966:
2. Name of winner: Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya
Contribution & Work: Ganadevta
Language: Bengali
Year 1967:

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3. Name of winner: Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa

(Kuvempu)
Contribution & Work: Sri Ramayana Darshanam
Language: Kannada
4. Name of winner: Umashankar Joshi
Contribution & Work: Nishitha
Language: Gujarati
Year1968:
5. Name of winner: Sumitranandan Pant
Contribution & Work: Chidambara
Language: Hindi
Year 1969:
6. Name of winner: Firaq Gorakhpuri
Contribution & Work: Gul-e-Naghma
Language: Urdu
Year 1970:
7. Name of winner: Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Contribution & Work: Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu [A resourceful tree: Ramayana]
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Language: Telugu
Year 1971:
8. Name of winner: Bishnu Dey Smriti
Contribution & Work: Satta Bhavishyat
Language: Bengali
Year 1972:
9. Name of winner: Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Contribution & Work: Urvashi
Language: Hindi
Year1973:
10. Name of winner: Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre
Contribution & Work: Nakutanti [Naku Thanthi (Four Strings)]
Language: Kannada
11. Name of winner: Gopinath Mohanty
Contribution & Work: Paraja
Language: Oriya
Year 1974:
12. Name of winner: Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Contribution & Work: Yayati
Language: Marathi
Year 1975:
13. Name of winner: P. V. Akilan
Contribution & Work: Chitttrappavai
Language: Tamil
Year 1976:
14. Name of winner: Ashapurna Devi
Contribution & Work: Pratham Pratisruti
Language: Bengali
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Year 1977:
15. Name of winner: K. Shivaram Karanth
Contribution & Work: Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Mookajjis dreams]
Language: Kannada
Year 1978:
16. Name of winner: Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya'
Contribution & Work: Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar
Language: Hindi
Year 1979:
17. Name of winner: Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Contribution & Work: Mrityunjay [Immortal]
Language: Assamese
Year 1980:
18. Name of winner: S. K. Pottekkatt
Contribution & Work: Oru Desathinte Katha [Story of a land]
Language: Malayalam
Year 1981:
19. Name of winner: Amrita Pritam
Contribution & Work: Kagaj Te Canvas
Language: Punjabi
Year 1982:
20. Name of winner: Mahadevi Varma
Contribution & Work: Yama
Language: Hindi
Year 1983:
21. Name of winner: Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar
Contribution & Work: Chikkaveera Rajendra [Life and struggle of Kodava King
Chikkaveera Rajendra]
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Language: Kannada
Year 1984:
22. Name of winner: Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Contribution & Work: Kayar [Coir]
Language: Malayalam
Year 1985:
23. Name of winner: Pannalal Patel
Contribution & Work: Maanavi Ni Bhavaai
Language: Gujarati

Year 1986:
24. Name of winner: Sachidananda Rout Roy
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Oriya literature
Language: Oriya
Year 1987:
25. Name of winner: Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)
Contribution & Work: Natsamrat
Language: Marathi
Year 1988:
26. Name of winner: Dr.C. Narayana Reddy
Contribution & Work: Vishwambhara
Language: Telugu
Year 1989:
27. Name of winner: Qurratulain Hyder
Contribution & Work: Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar
Language: Urdu
Year 1990:

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28. Name of winner: V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak)

Contribution & Work: Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi
Language: Kannada
Year 1991:
29. Name of winner: Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Contribution & Work: Padati
Language: Bengali
Year 1992:
30. Name of winner: Naresh Mehta
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Hindi literature
Language: Hindi

Year 1993:
31. Name of winner: Sitakant Mahapatra
Contribution & Work: For contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92
Language: Oriya
Year 1994:
32. Name of winner: U. R. Ananthamurthy
Contribution & Work: For his contributions to Kannada literature
Language: Kannada
Year 1995:
33. Name of winner: M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Contribution & Work: Randamoozham [Second Chance]
Language: Malayalam
Year 1996:
34. Name of winner: Mahasweta Devi
Contribution & Work: Hajar Churashir Ma
Language: Bengali
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Year 1997:
35. Name of winner: Ali Sardar Jafri
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Urdu literature
Language: Urdu
Year 1998:
36. Name of winner: Girish Karnad
Contribution & Work: "For his contributions to (Kannada) literature and for
contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)"
Language: Kannada
Year 1999:
37. Name of winner: Nirmal Verma
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Hindi literature
Language: Hindi
38. Name of winner: Gurdial Singh
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Punjabi literature
Language: Punjabi
Year 2000:
39. Name of winner: Indira Goswami
Contribution & Work: For writing about the subalterns and marginalized &contribution
in Assamese literature
Language: Assamese
Year 2001:
40. Name of winner: Rajendra Keshavlal Shah
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Gujarati literature
Language: Gujarati
Year 2002:
41. Name of winner: D. Jayakanthan
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Tamil literature
Language: Tamil
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Year 2003:
42. Name of winner: Vinda Karandikar
Contribution & Work: Ashtadarshana poetry
Language: Marathi
Year 2004:
43. Name of winner: Rahman Rahi
Contribution & Work: Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz
Language: Kashmiri
Year 2005:
44. Name of winner: Kunwar Narayan
Contribution & Work: For overall contribution in Hindi literature
Language: Hindi
Year 2006:
45. Name of winner: Ravindra Kelekar
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Konkani literature
Language: Konkani
46. Name of winner: Satya Vrat Shastri
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Sanskrit literature
Language: Sanskrit
Year 2007:
47. Name of winner: O. N. V. Kurup
Contribution & Work: For his contributions to Malayalam literature
Language: Malayalam
Year 2008:
48. Name of winner: Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Urdu literature
Language: Urdu
Year 2009:
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49. Name of winner: Amar Kant

Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Hindi literature
Language: Hindi
50. Name of winner: Shrilal Shukla
Contribution & Work: For his contribution in Hindi literature
Language: Hindi
Year 2010:
51. Name of winner: Chandrashekhar Kambara
Contribution & Work: For his contributions to Kannada literature
Language: Kannada
Year 2011:
52. Name of winner: Pratibha Ray
Contribution & Work: Yajnaseri
Language: Oriya
Year 2012:
53. Name of winner: Ravuri Bharadhwaja
Contribution & Work: Paakudurallu
Language: Telugu
Year 2013:
54. Name of winner: Kedarnath Singh
Contribution & Work: Akaal main Saras
Language: Hindi
Year 2014:
55. Name of winner: Bhalchandra Nemade (50th Jnanpith award)
Contribution & Work: Kosala (Cocoon)
Language: Marathi

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