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Eminent Malayalam poet, Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award for his outstanding contribution to the Malayalam language and Poetry.

In 2019, Amitav Ghosh is honored with the 54th Jnanpith Award for his contribution to English Literature and also became the 1st English language writer in the list as all previous winners of the prestigious award have been writers in Indian languages. He was conferred the award by former diplomat and governor of West Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who also addressed him as a 'craftsman'.

About Jnanpith Award

Jnanpith Award is a literary award presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organization to Indian writers every year. This was instituted in 1961 and is given only to Indian writers who write in Indian languages and English.

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This article is about the Jnanpith Award and will also provide you with the list of Jnanpith Award winners from 1965 to 2021 and other important information related to the same.

List of Jnanpith Award – Jnanpith Award Recipients (1965-2021)

Jnanpith Award was given only for a single piece of work till 1982. After 1982, the Jnanpith honour has been given for lifetime contribution to Indian literature.

The list of recipients of the Jnanpith Award is given below:

Year	Jnanpith Award winners	Language
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1966	Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya	Bengali
1967	Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa	Kannada
1967	Umashankar Joshi	Gujarati
1968	Sumitranandan Pant	Hindi
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1970	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Telugu
1971	Bishnu Dey	Bengali
1972	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Hindi
1973	Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre	Kannada
1973	Gopinath Mohanty	Oriya
1974	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Marathi
1975	P. V. Akilan	Tamil
1976	Ashapurna Devi	Bengali
1977	K. Shivaram Karanth	Kannada
1978	Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya'	Hindi
1979	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese
1980	S. K. Pottekkatt	Malayalam
1981	Amrita Pritam	Punjabi
1982	Mahadevi Varma	Hindi
1983	Masti Venkatesh Iyengar	Kannada
1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1985	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1986	Sachidananda Routray	Oriya
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar	Marathi
1988	Dr. C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1990	Vinayaka Krishna Gokak	Kannada
1991	Subhas Mukhopadhyay	Bengali
1992	Naresh Mehta	Hindi
1993	Sitakant Mahapatra	Oriya
1994	U. R. Ananthamurthy	Kannada
1995	Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam
1996	Mahasweta Devi	Bengali
1997	Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu
1998	Girish Karnad	Kannada
1999	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
1999	Nirmal Verma	Hindi
2000	Indira Goswami	Assamese
2001	Rajendra Keshavlal Shah	Gujarati
2002	D. Jayakanthan	Tamil
2003	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2004	Rehman Rahi	Kashmiri
2005	Kunwar Narayan	Hindi
2006	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2006	Satya Vrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2007	Dr. O. N. V. Kurup	Malayalam
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan	Urdu
2009	Amar Kant	Hindi
2009	Shrilal Shukla	Hindi
2010	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Kannada
2011	Pratibha Ray	Oriya
2012	Ravauri Bharadwaja	Telegu
2013	Kedarnath Singh	Hindi
2014	Bhalchandra Nemade	Marathi
2015	Dr. Raghuvir Chaudhari	Gujarati
2016	Shanka Ghosh	Bengali
2017	Krishna Sobti	Hindi
2018	Amitav Ghosh	English
2019	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri	Malayalam

** The Jnanpith Award Winner 2021 will be updated as and when it is announced.

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Facts About Jnanpith Award for UPSC

Jnanpith Award has achieved the recognition of the highest literary award of the country.
The Award is open for only Indian citizens and is given annually.
English along with other Indian languages is considered for the Award.
The winner is given a cash prize of Rs. 11 lakh and a bronze replica of Goddess Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning.
The first recipient of the award was Malayalam writer G Sankara Kurup in 1965 for his novel 'Odakkuzhal' (The Bamboo Flute).
The first woman writer to be awarded this award was Ashapoorna Devi, a Bengali writer, in 1976.
The organization which presents this award was founded in 1944 by industrialist and philanthropist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain.
Jnanpith Award is sponsored by the cultural organization Bharatiya Jnanpith.
The organization which presents this award was founded in 1944 by industrialist and philanthropist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain.