Jnanpith Award

[Biskot]

The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English,^[a] with no posthumous conferral.^[2]

From 1965 till 1981, the award was given to the authors for their "most outstanding work" and consisted of a citation plaque, a cash prize of ₹1 lakh (equivalent to ₹48 lakh or US$66,000 in 2017), and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom.^[3][4][5] The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), published in 1950.^[6] The rules were revised in subsequent years to consider only works published during the preceding twenty years, excluding the year for which the award was to be given and the cash prize was increased to ₹1.5 lakh (equivalent to ₹22 lakh or US$30,000 in 2017) from 1981.^[7]

As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to ₹11 lakh (equivalent to ₹12 lakh or US$16,000 in 2017) and out of twenty-three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in fifteen languages: Hindi (eleven), Kannada (eight), Bengali (six), Malayalam (five), Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, and Urdu (four each), Telugu (three), Assamese, Punjabi, and Tamil (two each), Kashmiri, Konkani, and Sanskrit (one each). The award has been conferred upon fifty-seven writers including seven women authors. In 1976, Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Pratham Pratisruti (The First Promise), the first in a trilogy.^[8] The most recent recipient of the award is Hindi fiction writer and essayist Krishna Sobti  who was awarded for the year 2017.

 

List of award recipients, showing the year, and language(s)^[11] Year Recipient(s) Language(s) Refs./Notes 1965
(1st) G. Sankara Kurup Malayalam ^[d][12] 1966
(2nd) Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Bengali ^[e][12] 1967
(3rd) † Umashankar Joshi Gujarati ^[f][12] 1967
(3rd) † Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' Kannada ^[g][12] 1968
(4th) Sumitranandan Pant Hindi ^[h][12] 1969
(5th) Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu ^[12] 1970
(6th) Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu ^[j][12] 1971
(7th) Bishnu Dey Bengali ^[k][12] 1972
(8th) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Hindi ^[l][12] 1973
(9th) † D. R. Bendre Kannada ^[m][12] 1973
(9th) † Gopinath Mohanty Odia ^[n][12] 1974
(10th) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Marathi ^[o][12] 1975
(11th) Akilan Tamil ^[p][12] 1976
(12th) Ashapoorna Devi Bengali ^[q][12] 1977
(13th) K. Shivaram Karanth Kannada ^[r][12] 1978
(14th) Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Hindi ^[12] 1979
(15th) Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Assamese ^[t][12] 1980
(16th) S. K. Pottekkatt Malayalam ^[12] 1981
(17th) Amrita Pritam Punjabi ^[v][12] 1982
(18th) Mahadevi Varma Hindi ^[13] 1983
(19th) Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Kannada ^[14] 1984
(20th) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malayalam ^[15] 1985
(21st) Pannalal Patel Gujarati ^[16] 1986
(22nd) Sachidananda Routray Odia ^[17] 1987
(23rd) Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj' Marathi ^[18] 1988
(24th) C. Narayana Reddy Telugu ^[19] 1989
(25th) Qurratulain Hyder Urdu ^[20] 1990
(26th) Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada ^[21] 1991
(27th) Subhash Mukhopadhyay Bengali ^[22] 1992
(28th) Naresh Mehta Hindi ^[23] 1993
(29th) Sitakant Mahapatra Odia ^[24] 1994
(30th) U. R. Ananthamurthy Kannada ^[25] 1995
(31st) M. T. Vasudevan Nair Malayalam ^[26] 1996
(32nd) Mahasweta Devi Bengali ^[27] 1997
(33rd) Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu ^[28] 1998
(34th) Girish Karnad Kannada ^[29] 1999
(35th) † Nirmal Verma Hindi ^[30] 1999
(35th) † Gurdial Singh Punjabi ^[30] 2000
(36th) Mamoni Raisom Goswami Assamese ^[31] 2001
(37th) Rajendra Shah Gujarati ^[32] 2002
(38th) Jayakanthan Tamil ^[33] 2003
(39th) Vinda Karandikar Marathi ^[34] 2004
(40th) Rehman Rahi Kashmiri ^[35] 2005
(41st) Kunwar Narayan Hindi ^[36] 2006
(42nd) † Ravindra Kelekar Konkani ^[36] 2006
(42nd) † Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit ^[36] 2007
(43rd) O. N. V. Kurup Malayalam ^[37] 2008
(44th) Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' Urdu ^[38] 2009
(45th) † Amarkant Hindi ^[39] 2009
(45th) † Sri Lal Sukla Hindi ^[39] 2010
(46th) Chandrashekhara Kambara Kannada ^[40] 2011
(47th) Pratibha Ray Odia ^[41] 2012
(48th) Ravuri Bharadhwaja Telugu ^[42] 2013
(49th) Kedarnath Singh Hindi ^[43] 2014
(50th) Bhalchandra Nemade Marathi ^[44] 2015
(51st) Raghuveer Chaudhari Gujarati ^[45] 2016
(52nd) Shankha Ghosh Bengali ^[46] 2017
(53rd) Krishna Sobti Hindi ^[47]

[Crazy_Robert]

Most of them are Kannadigas I guess .. Manollalo C.Na.Re Gariki vocchindhi .. Ravuri Bharadhwaja gari Pakudurallu ki vocchindhi . viswanatha gari veyyi padagalu ankunta

[Biskot]

1 minute ago, Crazy_Robert said:

Most of them are Kannadigas I guess .. Manollalo C.Na.Re Gariki vocchindhi .. Ravuri Bharadhwaja gari Pakudurallu ki vocchindhi . viswanatha gari veyyi padagalu ankunta

ya baney unnaru kannada la.. 8 won.

[Heroin]

Very useful info @Biskot

[TensionNahiLeneka]

3 minutes ago, Crazy_Robert said:

Most of them are Kannadigas I guess .. Manollalo C.Na.Re Gariki vocchindhi .. Ravuri Bharadhwaja gari Pakudurallu ki vocchindhi . viswanatha gari veyyi padagalu ankunta

caste lu maarali, premalu pergali, kaani pranteeya tatvam maatram ilane vundali. 

 

jai telugu, jai jai telugu 

[Heroin]

1 minute ago, TensionNahiLeneka said:

caste lu maarali, premalu pergali, kaani pranteeya tatvam maatram ilane vundali. 

 

jai telugu, jai jai telugu 

Caste lu lekapoina gani language untundi🤣

[Biskot]

10 minutes ago, TensionNahiLeneka said:

caste lu maarali, premalu pergali, kaani pranteeya tatvam maatram ilane vundali. 

 

jai telugu, jai jai telugu 

 

7 minutes ago, Heroin said:

Caste lu lekapoina gani language untundi🤣

 

C.Narayana Reddy & Ravuri telusu naku........... chala thakkuva unnaru mana telugu vallu.

[TensionNahiLeneka]

20 minutes ago, Heroin said:

Caste lu lekapoina gani language untundi🤣

avunu avunu.

[Crazy_Robert]

24 minutes ago, TensionNahiLeneka said:

caste lu maarali, premalu pergali, kaani pranteeya tatvam maatram ilane vundali. 

 

jai telugu, jai jai telugu 

pranteeya ante manollocchi... C.Na.re mee vodu... viswanatha varu kadhu antaru raja...

Basha paina prema.. .thalli paina prema lane undali... Jai telugu.. Jai Jai telugu

[Crazy_Robert]

13 minutes ago, Biskot said:

 

 

C.Narayana Reddy & Ravuri telusu naku........... chala thakkuva unnaru mana telugu vallu.

inka chala manchi poets unnaru manaki.viswanatha, Tilak, sri sri, arudra, dasaradhi, nanduri, guntur sheshendra sharma ila endharo mahanubhavulu.. andhariki vandanalu

[Heroin]

24 minutes ago, Biskot said:

 

 

C.Narayana Reddy & Ravuri telusu naku........... chala thakkuva unnaru mana telugu vallu.

C.na.re okate telsu.viswanadha satyanarayana veyi padagalu chadavalanukunna but first page ee ardamkaledu

[Crazy_Robert]

4 minutes ago, Heroin said:

C.na.re okate telsu.viswanadha satyanarayana veyi padagalu chadavalanukunna but first page ee ardamkaledu

avnu.. adhi chala days back vocchindhi kabatti appati telugu untadhi. pakudurallu koddhiga chadhiva.. C.Na.Re vi konchem manaki ardham ayye language lone untayi. 

[TensionNahiLeneka]

20 minutes ago, Crazy_Robert said:

pranteeya ante manollocchi... C.Na.re mee vodu... viswanatha varu kadhu antaru raja...

Basha paina prema.. .thalli paina prema lane undali... Jai telugu.. Jai Jai telugu

avunu avunu. inka nenu disco cheyyanu deeni meeda. 

okadu baasha to sepoerate cheste, okadu kulam to seperate chestunnadu.

naaku ayite rendu same. inka mee istam naa topic over. 

 

jai telugu, jai jia telugu, jai kulam, jai jai kulam. inkokadu vachi jai desham, jai jai desham ani kooda anukondi. 

[PanduRangaRao]

roll rida para para para pappara song ki istaru anta 2018 ki 

[Heroin]

2 minutes ago, Crazy_Robert said:

avnu.. adhi chala days back vocchindhi kabatti appati telugu untadhi. pakudurallu koddhiga chadhiva.. C.Na.Re vi konchem manaki ardham ayye language lone untayi. 

Yeah reading habbit poindi