Jnanpith Award recipients

Year Name Works Language

1965 G. Sankara Kurup

Odakkuzhal (Flute)

Malayalam

1966

Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya

Ganadevta

Bengali

Kuppali 1967 Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) 1967 Umashankar Joshi 1968 Sumitranandan Pant 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri 1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana

Sri Ramayana Darshanam Nishitha Chidambara Gul-e-Naghma

Kannada Gujarati Hindi Urdu

Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A Telugu resourceful tree:Ramayana) Smriti Satta Bhavishyat Urvashi Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) Paraja Yayati Chitttrappavai Pratham Pratisruti Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in many boats?) Mrityunjay (Immortal) Bengali Hindi Kannada Oriya Marathi Tamil Bengali Kannada

1971 Bishnu Dey 1972 1973 Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre

1973 Gopinath Mohanty 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

1975 P. V. Akilan 1976 Ashapurna Devi 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Sachchidananda 1978 Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' 1979 Birendra Kumar

Hindi Assamese

Bhattacharya 1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a land) Malayalam

1981 Amrita Pritam

Kagaj te Canvas

Punjabi

1982 Mahadevi Varma Maasti Venkatesh 1983 Ayengar 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Yama Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) Kayar {Coir} Maanavi Ni Bhavaai ( i)

Hindi Kannada

Malayalam Gujarati Oriya

1985 Pannalal Patel 1986 Sachidananda Rout Roy Vishnu Vaman 1987 Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) 1988 Dr.C. Narayana Reddy

Natsamrat Vishwambhara

Marathi Telugu

1989 Qurratulain Hyder

Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar

Urdu

1990

V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi Krishna Gokak)

Kannada Bengali Hindi

1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padati 1992 Naresh Mehta 1993 Sitakant Mahapatra "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92" [5] for his contributions to Kannada literature

Oriya

1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy

Kannada

1995 M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Randamoozham (Second Chance)

Malayalam

1996 Mahasweta Devi

Hajar Churashir Ma

Bengali

1997 Ali Sardar Jafri "for his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to kannada theater (yayati)"[6]

Urdu

1998 Girish Karnad

Kannada

1999 Nirmal Verma

Hindi

1999 Gurdial Singh

Punjabi

2000 Indira Goswami

Assamese

2001

Rajendra Keshavlal Shah

Gujarati Tamil Ashtadarshana (poetry) Marathi

2002 D. Jayakanthan 2003 Vinda Karandikar 2004 Rahman Rahi 2005 Kunwar Narayan

Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Kashmiri [7] Siyah Rode Jaren Manz Hindi[3]

2006 Ravindra Kelekar

Konkani[3]

2006 Satya Vrat Shastri

Sanskrit[4][8]

2007 O. N. V. Kurup

Malayalam[9]

2008

Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'

Urdu[9]

Saraswati Samman Awardees

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1990 - Ismat Chughtai for Urdu Literature 1991 - Harivanshrai 'Bachchan' for his autobiography in four volumes 1992 - Ramakant Rath 1993 - Vijay Tendulkar 1994 - Harbhajan Singh 1995 - Balamani Amma for poetry collection Nivedyam 1996 - Shamsur Rahman Faruqi for She`r-e Shor-Angez 1997 - Manubhai Pancholi 1998 - Shankha Ghosh for his anthology Gandharba Kabitaguccha 1999 - Indira Parthasarathy 2000 - Manoj Das for his novel Amrita Phala (The Nectar Fruit) 2001 - Dalip Kaur Tiwana for her novel Katha Kaho Urvashi 2002 - Mahesh Elkunchwar for his play Yugant 2003 - Govind Chandra Pande for his collection of 163 Sanskrit poems entitled Bhagirathi 2004 - Sunil Gangopadhyay for his novel Pratham Alo 2005 - K. Ayyappa Panicker for his collection of poems Ayyappa Panikarude Kritikal 2006 - Jagannath Prasad Das for his collection of poems Parikrama 2007 - Naiyer Masud for his collection of short stories Taoos Chaman Ki Myna (The Myna from Peacock Garden) written in Urdu 2008 - Lakshmi Nandan Bora for his novel Kayakalpa 2009 - Surjit Paatar for Lafzan Di Dargah 2010 - S. L. Bhyrappa for Mandra

Vyas Samman Awardees

2010 - VISHWANATH PRASAD TIWARI for his collection of poems "PHIR BHI KUCH RAH JAYEGA " 2009 - AMAR KANTH for his booK "INHI HATHIYARON SE" 2008 - Eminent Hindi author Mannu Bhandaris autobiography Ek Kahani Yah Bhi has been chosen for the prestigious Vyas Samman for 2008. 2007 - The Selection Board did not find anyone suitable for the award. 2006 - Noted poet and literary critic Parmanand Srivastava . 2005 - "Katha Satisar" by Chandrakanta 2004 - "Kath Gulab" by Mridula (Jain) Garg 2003 - "Anwan" by Chitra Mudgal 2002 - "Prithvi Ka Krishna Paksh" by Kailash vajpayee 2001 - Hindi author Giriraj Kishor, after receiving the Vyas Samman for his book ``Pehla Girmitiya 2000 - "Pehla Girimitya" by Giriraj Kishore 1999 - "Bisarampur Ka Sant" by Sri Lal Sukla 1998 - "Paanch Aanganon wala Ghar" by Govind Mishra 1997 - "Uttar Kabir Tatha Anya Kavitaen (Poems)" by Dr. Kedarnath Singh 1996 - "Hindi Sahitya aur Samvedna ka Vikas" by Prof. Ramswarup Chaturvedi 1995 - "Koi Dusra Nahin (Collection of poems)" by Shri Kunwar Narayan 1994 - "Sapna Abhi Bhi (Collection of poems)" by Dr. Dharmvir Bharti 1993 - "Main Waqt ke Hoon Samane (Collection of poems)" by Shri Girija Kumar Mathur 1992 - "Neela Chand (Novel)" by Dr. Shiv Prasad Singh 1991 - Bharat ke Pracheen bhasha parivar aur Hindi in 3 volumes by Dr. Ram Vilas Sharma

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Sahitya Akademi Award

(hindi)

Year Author Work 1955 Makhanlal Chaturvedi Him Tarangini (Poetry) 1956 Vasudeva Saran Agrawal Padmavat Sanjivani Vyakhya (Commentary) 1957 Acharya Narendra Dev Bauddha Dharma Darshan (Philosophy) 1958 Rahul Sankrityayan Madhya Asia Ka Itihas (History) 1959 Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyaya (A Survey of Indian culture) 1960 Sumitranandan Pant Kala aur Burha Chand (Poetry) 1961 Bhagwati Charan Verma Bhoole Bisre Chitra (Novel) 1962 No Award [1] 1963 Amrit Rai Premchand: Kalam Ka Sipahi (Biography) 1964 S.H. Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' Aangan Ke Par Dvar (Poetry) 1965 Nagendra Rasa Siddhanta (Treatise on poetics) 1966 Jainendra Kumar Muktibodh (Novelette) 1967 Amritlal Nagar Amrit Aur Vish (Novel) 1968 Harivansh Rai Bachchan Do Chattanen (Poetry) 1969 Shrilal Shukla Rag Darbari (Novel) 1970 Ram Vilas Sharma Nirala Ki Sahitya Sadhana (Biography) 1971 Namwar Singh Kavita Ke Naye Pratiman (Literary criticism) 1972 Bhawani Prasad Mishra Buni Huyi Rassi (Poetry) 1973 Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Alok Parva (Essays) 1974 Shivmangal Singh 'Suman' Mitti Ki Baraat (Poetry) 1975 Bhisham Sahni Tamas (Novel) 1976 Yashpal Meri Teri Uski Baat (Novel) 1977 Shamsher Bahadur Singh Chuka Bhi Hun Nahin Main (Poetry) 1978 Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Utna Vah Suraj Hai (Poetry) 1979 Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil' Kal Sunana Mujhe (Poetry) 1980 Krishna Sobti Zindaginama - Zinda Rukh (Novel) 1981 Trilochan Tap Ke Taye Hue Din (Novel) 1982 Harishankar Parsai Viklang Shraddha Ka Daur (Satire) 1983 Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena Khutiyon Par Tange Log (Poetry) 1984 Raghuvir Sahay Log Bhool Gaye Hain (Poetry) 1985 Nirmal Verma Kavve Aur Kala Pani (Short stories) 1986 Kedarnath Agarwal Apurva (Poetry) 1987 Shrikant Verma Magadh (Poems) 1988 Naresh Mehta Aranya (Poems)

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Kedarnath Singh Shiv Prasad Singh Girija Kumar Mathur Giriraj Kishore Vishnu Prabhakar Ashok Vajpeyi Kunwar Narain Surendra Verma Leeladhar Jagoori Arun Kamal Vinod Kumar Shukla Manglesh Dabral Alka Saraogi Rajesh Joshi Kamleshwar Viren Dangwal Manohar Shyam Joshi Gyanendrapati Amar Kant Govind Mishra[2] Kailash Vajpeyi [3] Uday Prakash [4]

Akaal Mein Saras (Poetry) Neela Chand (Novel) Main Vaqt Ke Hun Samne (Poetry) Dhai Ghar (Novel) Ardhanarishwar (Novel) Kahin Nahin Wahin (Poetry) Koi Doosra Nahin (Poetry) Mujhe Chand Chahiye (Novel) Anubhav Ke Aakash Mein Chand (Poetry) Naye Ilake Mein (Poetry) Deewar Main Ek Khirkee Rahathi Thi (Novel) Hum Jo Dekhte Hain (Poetry) Via Bypass (Novel) Do Panktiyon Ke Beech (Poems) Kitne Pakistan (Novel) Dushchakra Mein Srista (Poetry) Kyap (Novel) Sanshyatma (Poetry) Inhin Hathiyaron Se (Novel) Kohre Mein Kaid Rang (Novel) Hawa mein Hastakshar (Poetry) Mohan Das (Short stories) [5]