*JNANAPITH AWARD WINNERS

Year	Name	Works	Language
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Odakkuzhal	Malayalam
1966	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	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 Kalpavrukshamu (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	Matimatal	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 Vatsyayan	Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in how many boats?)	Hindi
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	Masti Venkatesha Iyengar	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 Routray		Oriya
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj)	For contributions in Marathi literature	Marathi
1988	C. Narayana Reddy	Viswambhara	Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar	Urdu
1990	V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak)	Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi	Kannada
1991	Subhas Mukhopadhyay	Padatik (The Foot Soldier)	Bengali
1992	Naresh Mehta	For contribution to Hindi literature	Hindi
1993	Sitakant Mahapatra	For contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature	Oriya
1994	U. R. Ananthamurthy	For contributions to Kannada literature	Kannada
1995	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	For contributions to Malayalam literature	Malayalam
1996	Mahasweta Devi	Hajar Churashir Maa	Bengali
1997	Ali Sardar Jafri		Urdu
1998	Girish Karnad	For contributions to Kannada literature and theatre	Kannada
1999	Nirmal Verma		Hindi
1999	Gurdial Singh		Punjabi
2000	Indira Goswami		Assamese
2001	Rajendra Shah		Gujarati
2002	D. Jayakanthan		Tamil
2003	Vinda Karandikar	For contributions to Marathi literature	Marathi
2004	Rehman 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	For contributions to Malayalam literature	Malayalam
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar		Urdu
2009	Amar Kant		Hindi
2009	Sri Lal Sukla		Hindi
2010	Chandrashekhara Kambara	For contributions to Kannada literature	Kannada
2011	Pratibha Ray		Oriya
2012	Ravuri Bharadhwaja	For notable contribution to Telugu literature	Telugu