| Jnanpith Award | ||
| Award Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Literature (Individual) | |
| Instituted | 1961 | |
| First Awarded | 1965 | |
| Last Awarded | 2006 | |
| Total Awarded | 46 | |
| Awarded by | Bharatiya Jnanpith | |
| Description | Literary award in India |
|
| First Awardee(s) | G Sankara Kurup | |
The Jnanpith Award is the highest literary award in India[1] 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 jnāna-pīṭha = "knowledge-seat".[citation needed]
The award carries a check for Rs. 500,000, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Vagdevi, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.[2]
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 honor.
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. Seven awards each have been awarded in Kannada and Hindi and followed by five in Bengali, four in Malayalam and three in Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi and Urdu[3].The award announcements have lately been lagging behind the award-years. The award 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. [3], in 2009, Satya Vrat Shastri the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception [4].
Jnanpith Award recipients
| Year | Name | Works | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | G Sankara Kurup | Odakkuzhal (Flute) | Malayalam |
| 1966 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya | Ganadevta | Bengali |
| 1967 | Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) | Sri Ramayana Darshanam | Kannada |
| 1967 | Umashankar Joshi | Nishitha | Gujarati |
| 1968 | Sumitranandan Pant | Chidambara | Hindi |
| 1969 | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Gul-e-Naghma | Urdu |
| 1970 | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) | Telugu |
| 1971 | Bishnu Dey | Smriti Satta Bhavishyat | Bengali |
| 1972 | Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' | Urvashi | Hindi |
| 1973 | Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre | Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) | Kannada |
| 1973 | Gopinath Mohanty | Paraja | Oriya |
| 1974 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Yayati | Marathi |
| 1975 | P.V.Akilan | Chitttrappavai | Tamil |
| 1976 | Asha Purna Devi | Pratham Pratisruti | Bengali |
| 1977 | K.Shivaram Karanth | Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) | Kannada |
| 1978 | Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' | Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) | Hindi |
| 1979 | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Mrityunjay (Immortal) | Assamese |
| 1980 | S. K. Pottekkatt | Oru Desattinte Katha (Story of a land) | Malayalam |
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Kagaj te Canvas | Punjabi |
| 1982 | Mahadevi Varma | Yama | Hindi |
| 1983 | Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar | Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) | Kannada |
| 1984 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Kayar {Coir} | Malayalam |
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (માનવીની ભવાઇ) | Gujarati |
| 1986 | Sachidananda Rout Roy | Oriya | |
| 1987 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) | Natsamrat | Marathi |
| 1988 | Dr.C. Narayana Reddy | Vishwambhara | Telugu |
| 1989 | Qurratulain Hyder | Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar | Urdu |
| 1990 | V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) | Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi | Kannada |
| 1991 | Subhas Mukhopadhyay | Bengali | |
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi | |
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Oriya | |
| 1994 | U.R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada | |
| 1995 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Randamoozham [second chance} | Malayalam |
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali | |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu | |
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | "for his contributions to modern Indian drama"[5] | Kannada |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi | |
| 1999 | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | |
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese | |
| 2001 | Rajendra Keshavlal Shah | Gujarati | |
| 2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil | |
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | Ashtadarshana (poetry) | Marathi |
| 2004 | Rahman Rahi | Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz | Kashmiri [6] |
| 2005 | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi[3] | |
| 2006 | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani[3] | |
| 2006 | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit[4][7] |
References
- ^ Article from The Hindu
- ^ "Jnanpith award for Jayakanthan". Times of India. 20 Mar 2005. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1056950.cms. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ a b c d "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". The Hindu. Aug 20, 2009. http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/20/stories/2009082057081100.htm. Retrieved August 20 2009.
- ^ The multi-faceted playwright, [[Frontline (magazine)|]]
- ^ http://jnanpith.net/images/40thJnanpith_Declared.pdf 40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri Poet Shri Rahman Rahi
- ^ 41st and 42nd Jnanpith Awards, Official Press release
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