- Jnanpith Award
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Jnanpith Award Award Information Category Literature (Individual) Instituted 1961 First Awarded 1965 Last Awarded 2010[1] Total Awarded 46[1] (51 persons) Awarded by Bharatiya Jnanpith Description Literary award
in IndiaFirst Awardee(s) G Sankara Kurup Last Awardee(s) Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla and Chandrashekhara Kambara[1] The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship,[2] it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.[3] It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.
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The Award
The name of the award is taken from Sanskrit words gnyāna and pīṭha (knowledge-seat). It carries a check for
7 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.[4]The award was instituted in 1961, and its first recipient, in 1965, was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour.
Prior to 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer; since then, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian literature. Nine individuals [Including the 2009 award which is being shared by two Hindi writers] writing in Hindi have been honoured with the award, eight in Kannada, five in Bengali and Malayalam, four in Urdu and three in Gujarati, Oriya and Marathi.[citation needed]
The award announcements have lately been lagging behind the award-years. The awards for the years 2005 and 2006 were announced on November 22, 2008, and were awarded to the Hindi writer Kunwar Narayan for 2005 and jointly to Konkani writer Ravindra Kelekar and Sanskrit scholar Satya Vrat Shastri for 2006.[5] Satya Vrat Shastri is the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception.[6] The awards for the 45th and 46th Jnanpith for the years 2009 and 2010 respectively, were announced on 20 September, 2011.[1] The 45th award was jointly conferred on Hindi littérateurs Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla, and the 46th on the Kannada littérateur Chandrashekhara Kambara.[1]
Jnanpith Award recipients
Year State Name Works Language Picture 1965 Kerala G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute) Malayalam 
1966 West Bengal Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Ganadevta Bengali 1967 Karnataka Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) Sri Ramayana Darshanam Kannada 
1967 Gujarat Umashankar Joshi Nishitha Gujarati 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara Hindi 1969 Uttar Pradesh Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma Urdu 1970 Andra Pradesh Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) Telugu 1971 Bengal Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat Bengali 1972 Bihar Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Urvashi Hindi 1973 Karnataka Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) Kannada 
1973 Orissa Gopinath Mohanty Paraja Oriya 1974 Maharashtra Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati Marathi 1975 Tamilnadu P. V. Akilan Chitttrappavai Tamil 1976 Bengal Ashapurna Devi Pratham Pratisruti Bengali 1977 Karnataka K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) Kannada 
1978 Uttar Pradesh Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) Hindi 1979 Assam Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay (Immortal) Assamese 1980 Kerala S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a land) Malayalam 1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas Punjabi 
1982 Uttar Pradesh Mahadevi Varma Yama Hindi 1983 Karnataka Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) Kannada 
1984 Kerala Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar {Coir} Malayalam 1985 Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (માનવીની ભવાઇ) Gujarati 1986 Sachidananda Rout Roy Oriya 1987 Maharashtra Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) Natsamrat Marathi 1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara Telugu 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar Urdu 
1990 Karnataka V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi Kannada 
1991 Bengal Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padati Bengali 1992 Naresh Mehta Hindi 1993 Sitakant Mahapatra "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92"[7] Oriya 1994 Karnataka U. R. Ananthamurthy for his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada 
1995 Kerala Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair Randamoozham (Second Chance) Malayalam 
1996 Bengal Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Ma Bengali 
1997 Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu 1998 Karnataka Girish Karnad "for his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to kannada theater (yayati)"[8] Kannada 
1999 Nirmal Verma Hindi 
1999 Gurdial Singh Punjabi 2000 Indira Goswami Assamese 2001 Rajendra Keshavlal Shah Gujarati 2002 Tamilnadu D. Jayakanthan Tamil 2003 Maharashtra Vinda Karandikar Ashtadarshana (poetry) Marathi 2004 Jammu & Kashmir Rahman Rahi Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz Kashmiri[9] 2005 Uttar Pradesh Kunwar Narayan Hindi[5] 2006 Goa Ravindra Kelekar Konkani[5] 
2006 Uttar Pradesh Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit[6][10] 2007 Kerala Dr. O. N. V. Kurup for his contributions to Malayalam literature Malayalam[11] 
2008 Uttar Pradesh Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' Urdu[11] 
2009 Uttar Pradesh Amar Kant Hindi[1] 2009 Uttar Pradesh Shrilal Shukla Hindi[1] 2010 Karnataka Chandrashekhara Kambara for his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada[1] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h [1], Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award.
- ^ Report from The Hindu, January 2007.: the noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour - Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
- ^ Article from The Hindu
- ^ "Jnanpith award for Jayakanthan". Times of India (20 Mar 2005). 20 March 2005. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1056950.cms. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ a b c "Kunwar Narayan to be awarded Jnanpith". Times of India. Nov 24, 2008. http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/Kunwar_Narayan_to_be_awarded_Jnanpith/articleshow/3752703.cms. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
- ^ a b "Jnanpith Award presented". Chennai, India: The Hindu. Aug 20, 2009. http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/20/stories/2009082057081100.htm. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
- ^ Jnanpith, p. 18
- ^ The multi-faceted playwright, Frontline (magazine)
- ^ 40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri Poet Shri Rahman Rahi
- ^ 41st and 42nd Jnanpith Awards, Official Press release
- ^ a b "Malayalam, Urdu writers claim Jnanpith awards". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 25 September 2010. http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/25/stories/2010092556201600.htm. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
- Jnanpith, Bhartiya (1994). The text and the context: an encounter with Jnanpith laureates. Bhartiya Jnanpith. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=XfzZvNc6hPkC&pg=PA17&dq=Sitakant+Mahapatra&cd=72#v=onepage&q=Sitakant%20Mahapatra&f=false.
External links
- "Jnanpith Laureates Official listings". Jnanpith Website. http://jnanpith.net/page/jnanpith-laureates.
- Official Jnanpith Website
- List of winners
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