Sunday, December 4, 2011

List of the Jnanpith Award Winners from 1965to 2010 - Improve Your General Knowledge


The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. 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  

Name
Language
Year
Shankara Kurup
Malayalam
1965
Trashankar Bandopadjya
Bengali
1966
Dr K V Puttappa
Kannada
1967
Uma Shankar Joshi
Gujarati
1967
Smitra Nandan Pant
Hindi
1968
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Urdu
1969
Vishanath Satyanaryanan
Telugu
1970
Bishnu Dey
Bengali
1971
Ramdhari Singh Dinakar
Hindi
1972
Dattaterya Ramachandran Bendre
Kannada
1973
Gopinath Mohanty
Oriya
1973
Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar
Marathi
1974
P V Akilandam
Tamil
1975
Ashapurna Devu
Bengli
1976
K Shivaram Karanth
Kannada
1977
S H V Ajneya
Hindi
1978
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Assamese
1979
S K Pottekkatt
Malayalam
1980
Amrita Pritam
Punjabi
1981
Mahadevi Varma
Hindi
1982
Masti Venkatesh Ayengar
Kannada
1983
Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai
Malayalam
1984
Pannaalal Patel
Gujarati
1985
Sachianand Rout Roy
Oriya
1986
Vihnu Varman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj
Marathi
1987
C Narayanan Reddy
Telugu
1988
Qurrtul –ain haider
Urdu
1989
V K Gokk
Kannada
1990
Subhash Mukhopadhya
Bengali
1991
Naresh Mehta
Hindi
1992
Sitakant Mahapatra
Oriya
1993
U R Anantha Murthy
Kannada
1994
M T Vasudevan  Nair
Malayalam
1995
Mahashveta  Devi
Bengali
1996
Ali Sardar Jafri
Urdu
1997
Girish Karnad
Kannada
1998
Nirmal  Varma 
Hindi
1999
Gurudial Singh
Punjabi
1999
Dr indira Goswami
Assamese
2000
Rajendra Keshavlal Shah
Gujarati
2001
D Jayakanthan
Tamil
2002
Vinda Karandikar
Marathi
2003
Rahman Rahi
Jammu & Kashmir
2004
Kunwar Narayan
UP
2005
Ravindra Kelekar
Goa
2006
Satya Vrat Shastri
UP
2006
O N V Kurup
Kerala
2007
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
UP
2008
Amar Kant
UP
2009
Shrilal Shukla
UP
2009
Chandrasekhara Kambara
Karnataka
2010
Collected By S  Jayachandran , SA ,Divisional office , mavelikara  : Please Visit : Http://nfpemavelikaradivision.blogspot.com
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