Jnanpith Award Winners updated September 2011

Name G.Sankara Kurup Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa(Kuvempu) Umashankar Joshi Sumitranandan Pant Firaq Gorakhpuri Vishwanatha Satyanarayana Bishnu Dey Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Gopinath Mohanty Vishnu Sakhram Khandekar P.V.Akilan Ashapurna Devi K.Shivaram Karanth S.H.Vatsyayan Ajneya Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya S.K.Pottekkat Amrita Pritam Mahadevi Varma Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Pannalal Patel Sachidananda Rout Roy Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar(Kusumagraj) Dr.C.Narayana reddy Qurratulain Hyder V.K.Gokak Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Year Language Title 1965 Malayalam Odakkuzhal(Flute) 1966 Bengali 1967 Kannada 1967 Gujarati 1968 Hindi 1969 Urdu 1970 Telugu 1971 Bengali 1972 Hindi 1973 Kannada 1973 Oriya 1974 Marathi 1975 Tamil 1976 Bengali 1977 Kannada 1978 Hindi Ganadevta Sri Ramayana Darshanam Nishitha Chidambara Gul-e-Naghma Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu Smriti Satta Bhavishyat Urvashi Nakutanthi(Four Strings) Paraja Yayati Chittrappavai Pratham Pratisruti

Mookajjiya Kanasugalu(Mookajjis Dreams

Kitni Naon Men Kitni bar(How many time boats?)

1979 Assamese Mrityunjay(Immortal) 1980 Malayalam Oru Desathinte Katha(Story of a Land) 1981 Punjabi 1982 Hindi 1983 Kannada 1985 Gujarati 1986 Oriya 1987 Marathi 1988 Telugu 1989 Urdu 1990 Kannada 1991 Bengali Natsamrat Vishwambhara Akhire Shab Ke Humsafard Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi Padati Kagaj te Canvas Yama Chikkaveera Rajendra Maanavi Ni Bhavaai

1984 Malayalam Kayar(Coir)

Naresh Mehta Sitakant Mahapatra U.R.Ananthamurthy M.T.vasudevan Mahasweta Devi Ali Sardar Jafri Girish Karnad Nirmal Verma Gurdial Singh Indira Goswami Rajendra Keshavlal Shah D.Jayakanthan Vinda Karandikar Rahman Rahi Kunwar Narayan Ravindra Kelekar Satya Vrat Shastri O.N.V.Kurup Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Shahryar Amar Kant Srilal Shukla Chandrashekhara Kambara

1992 Hindi 1993 Oriya 1994 Kannada 1995 Malayalam Randamoozham(Second Chance) 1996 Bengali 1997 Urdu 1998 Kannada 1999 Hindi 1999 Punjabi 2000 Assamese 2001 Gujarati 2002 Tamil 2003 Marathi 2004 Kashmiri 2005 Hindi 2006 Konkani 2006 Sanskrit 2007 Malayalam 2008 Urdu 2009 Hindi 2009 Hindi 2010 Kannada Ashtadarshana Subhuk soda,Kalami Rahi & Siyah Rode Hajar Churashir Ma