Jnanpitha Award Winners

1965- G.Sankara Kurup (Malayalam)
1966- Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (Bengali)
1967-K.V.Puttappa (Kannada), 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- Dr. D.R Bendre (Kannada), Gopinath Mohanty (Odia)
1974- Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Marathi)
1975- P.V. Akilandan (Tamil)
1976-Ashapurna Devi (Bengali)
1977- K. Shivaram Karanth (Kannada)
1978- Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (Hindi)
1979- Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (Assamese)
1980- S.K. Pottekkatt (Malayalam)
1981- Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)
1982- Mahadevi Varma (Hindi)
1983- Masti Venkatesha Lyengar (Kannada)
1984- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam)
1985- Pannalal Patel (Gujarati)
1986- Sachidananda Routray (Odia)
1987- Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Marathi)
1988- C.Narayana Reddy (Telugu)
1989- Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu)
1990- Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (Kannada)
1991- Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Bengali)
1992- Naresh Mehta (Hindi)
1993- Sitakant Mahapatra (Odia)
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)
2000- Indira Goswami (Assamese)
2001- Rajendra Shah (Gujarati)
2002- D. Jayakanthan (Tamil)
2003- Vinda Karandikar (Marathi)
2004- Rehman Rahi (Kashmiri)
2005- Kunwar Narayan (Hindi)
2006- Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani), Satyavrat Shastri (Sankrit)
2007- O.N.V. Kurup (Malayalam)
2008-Akhlaq  Mohammed Khan Shahryar (Urdu)
2009- Amar Kant (Hindi), Sri Lal Sukla (Hindi)
2010- Chandrashekhara Kambara (Kannada)
2011- Pratibha Ray (Odia)