Jnanpith Award Winners – India’s Highest Literary Award

Year	Name	Language
1965	G Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1966	Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya	Bengali
1967	Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu)	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	Asha Purna Devi	Bengali
1977	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	Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar	Kannada
1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1985	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1986	Sachidananda Rout Roy	Oriya
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)	Marathi
1988	Dr.C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1990	V. K. Gokak (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	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