Jnanpith Award Winners In Malayalam

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Jnanpith Award Winners In Malayalam

Jnanpith Award Winners In Malayalam

Are you looking for Jnanpith Award winners in Malayalam? Here we give the list of recipients of Janpeeth Award in Malayalam.

The Jnanpith Award is one of the highest literary awards in India. Named the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award, it includes a bronze sculpture of Goddess Saraswati, a certificate and a check for Rs 11 lakh. Although not an official award of the Government, the Jnanpith Award is considered to be the highest recognition in the field of literature in India, along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.

The award is presented by the Jnanpith Trust, founded by the Sahu Jain family, which owns the Times of India Group. The award is considered for the author's comprehensive literary contribution since 1982.

The first prize was won in 1965 for G. Sankarakuruppu's collection of poems'Odakkuzhal'. The prize money, which was Rs 1 lakh in 1965, is now Rs 11 lakh.

Jnanpith Award Winners (Puraskaram) In Kerala

The first poet in Malayalam, G Shankara Kurup, received the award in 1965. After that, S.K. Pottakkad (1980), Takashi Sivasankarappilla (1984), MT Vasudevan Nair (1995), ONV. Kurup (2007) and Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2019) also won the Jnanpith Award for their contributions to Malayalam literature.

The last time Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri won the award was in 2019.

Jnanpith Award Winners list (1965-2019)

Below is the complete list of Jnanpith Award winners from 1965 to 2019.

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 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 Shirwadkaray 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 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 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 ONV.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

Jnanpith Award Question Answers

FAQ 1 : Who is the first Jnanpith Award winner?

G.Sankara Kurup

FAQ 2 : Who was the first woman writer to win the Jnanpith award?

Ashapoorna Devi

FAQ 3 : In which year did Ashapoorna Devi receive the Jnanpith award?

1976 ( Bengali writer)

FAQ 4 : How many times have Malayalam writers received the Jnanpith award?

6

FAQ 5 : How many times have works in the Hindi language won the Jnanpith Award?

11

FAQ 6 : The year in which M.T. Vasudevan Nair received the Jnanpith Award?

1995

FAQ 7 : Who won the Jnanpith award in 2007?

ONV.Kurup

FAQ 8 : Name of the Jnanpith Award-winning work by G. Sankara Kurup?

Odakkuzhal (Collection Of Poems)

FAQ 9 : Who is the winner of Jnanpith Award 2019?

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

FAQ 10 : What is the prize money of Jnanpith Award?

11 lakh

FAQ 11 : What is the prize money of Jnanpith award in 1965?

1 lakh

FAQ 12 : The year Mahasweta Devi received the Jnanpith award?

1996

FAQ 13 : In which year did O.N.V. Kurup receive the Jnanpith Award?

2007

FAQ 14 :Who is the winner of Jnanpith Award 2010?

Chandrashekhara Kambara

FAQ 15 : How many people have received the Jnanpith award so far?

60(Until 2019)

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