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The Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust established by Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the leading newspaper The Times of India present this award. The award consists of a cheque of five lakhs, a citation plaque and a bronze icon of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music and arts. Background of Jnanpith Award The name Jnanpith is taken from the Sanskrit term 'jnanapitha' which means knowledge seat. Before 1982, the awards were presented for a single work by a writer but after 1982 the award has also been given for lifetime contribution to Indian literature. The ‘Bharatiya Jnanpith’, a research and educational institute founded in 1944 by industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family, conceived a proposal in May 1961 to start a scheme. The Founder President of the Bharatiya Jnanpith requested a few literary experts to discuss different aspects of the system. The idea was also discussed at the 1962 annual sessions of the All India Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. The first Selection Board of Jnanpith Award consisted of Kalelkar, Niharranjan Ray, Karan Singh, R. R. Diwakar, V. Raghavan, B. Gopal Reddy, Harekrishna Mahatab, Rama Jain, and Lakshmi Chandra Jain and was headed by Sampurnanand. Procedures of Jnanpith Award The nominations for the Jnanpith Award are received from different literary specialists, teachers, reviewers, universities, and many literary and language organizations. All the nominations are analysed by the commission and their advices are submitted to the Jnanpith Award Selection Board (Pravara Parishad).The recommendations of all language advice-giving committees are evaluated by the panel based on absolute translations of the selected writings. The recipient for a particular year is announced by the Selection Board, which has ultimate authority in collection. List of Recipients of Jnanpith Award The awardees of Jnanpith Award are as follows: 1965 - 1966 - Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya - Ganadevta - Bengali 1967 - Dr. K.V. Puttappa - Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Glimpses of Ramayana) - 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 (Four Strings) - Kannada 1973 - Gopinath Mohanty - Mattimatal - Oriya 1974 - Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar - Yayati - Marathi 1975 - P.V.Akilandam - Chitttrappavai - Tamil 1976 - Asha Purna Devi - Pratham Pratisruti - Bengali 1977 - K.Shivaram Karanth - Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajji's dreams) - Kannada 1978 - Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan - 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 - Malayalam 1985 - Pannalal Patel - Gujarati 1986 - Sachidanand Rout Roy - Oriya 1987 - Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) - ("Natsamrat") Marathi 1988 - Dr. C. Narayana Reddy - Telugu 1989 - Qurratulain Hyder - Urdu 1990 - V. K. 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 - Malayalam 1996 - Mahasweta Devi - Bengali 1997 - Ali Sardar Jafri - Urdu 1998 - Girish Karnad - 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 - Marathi 2004 - Rahman Rahi - 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 – Amarkant - Hindi 2010 - Chandrashekhara Kambara - Kannada 2011 - Pratibha Ray - Odia 2012 - Ravuri Bharadhwaja - Telugu 2013 - Kedarnath Singh - Hindi 2014 - Bhalchandra Nemade - Marathi 2015 - Raghuveer Chaudhari - Gujarati 2016 - Shankha Ghosh - Bengali 2017 - Krishna Sobti - Hindi As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to 11 lakh and out of twenty-three suitable languages the award has been presented for works in fifteen languages: Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Oria and Urdu, Telugu, Assamese, Punjabi, and Tamil, Kashmiri, Konkani, and Sanskrit. The award has been conferred upon fifty-seven writers including seven women authors. |
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Jnanpith Award
| Jnanpith Award is given for excellence in the field of literature. It is an Indian literary award presented yearly by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author. |
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