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    This document lists the winners of the Jnanpith Award from 1965 to 2013. The Jnanpith Award is India's highest literary award that is presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their outstanding contribution towards literature. Each year entry provides the name of the award winner, the language they wrote in, and one of their major works. A total of 48 authors across 14 major Indian languages received the prestigious award during this period.

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    This document lists the winners of the Jnanpith Award from 1965 to 2013. The Jnanpith Award is India's highest literary award that is presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their outstanding contribution towards literature. Each year entry provides the name of the award winner, the language they wrote in, and one of their major works. A total of 48 authors across 14 major Indian languages received the prestigious award during this period.

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    This document lists the winners of the Jnanpith Award from 1965 to 2013. The Jnanpith Award is India's highest literary award that is presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their outstanding contribution towards literature. Each year entry provides the name of the award winner, the language they wrote in, and one of their major works. A total of 48 authors across 14 major Indian languages received the prestigious award during this period.

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    Jnanpith Award Winners List (19652013)

    Jnanpith Award Winners


    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 : Ashapurna 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)
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    1979 : Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay [Immortal] (Assamese)


    1980 : S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte 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 (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 Padati (Bengali)
    1992 : Naresh Mehta (Hindi)
    1993 : Sitakant Mahapatra "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of
    Indian literature, 1973-92" (Oriya)
    1994 : U. R. Ananthamurthy for his contributions to (Kannada) literature
    (Kannada)
    1995 : M. T. Vasudevan Nair Randamoozham [Second Chance] (Malayalam)
    1996 : Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Ma (Bengali)
    1997 : Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu)
    1998 : Girish Karnad "for his contributions to (Kannada) literature and for
    contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)" (Kannada)
    1999 : Nirmal Verma (Hindi)
    1999 : Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)
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    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)
    2005 : Kunwar Narayan (Hindi)
    2006 : Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani)
    2006 : Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit)
    2007 : O. N. V. Kurup (Malayalam)
    2008 : Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' (Urdu)
    2009 : Amar Kant (Hindi)
    2009 : Shrilal Shukla (Hindi)
    2010 : Chandrashekhara Kambara for his contributions to Kannada literature
    (Kannada)
    2011 : Pratibha Ray (Oriya)
    2012 : Ravuri Bharadhwaja Pakudu Rallu (Crawling Stones) (Telugu)
    2013 : Kedarnath Singh (Hindi)

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