The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.
The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the newspaper The Times of India.
It carries a cheque for 
11 lakh, a citation plaque and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Indian goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.
Jnanpith Award recipients
| Year | Name | Works | Language | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | G. Sankara Kurup | Odakkuzhal | Malayalam |  |
| 1966 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Ganadevta | Bengali | |
| 1967 | Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) | Sri Ramayana Darshanam | Kannada |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 his contributions to 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 | Hindi | – | |
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | For outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973–92 | Oriya |  |
| 1994 | U. R. Ananthamurthy | For his contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada |  |
| 1995 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | For his contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam |  |
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Hajar Churashir Maa | Bengali | – |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu | – | |
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | For his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati) | Kannada |  |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |  |
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| Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | – | ||
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese | – | |
| 2001 | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati | – | |
| 2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil |  |
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| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | For his 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 | – | |
| Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit | |||
| 2007 | O. N. V. Kurup | For his contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam |  |
| 2008 | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' | Urdu | – | |
| 2009 | Amar Kant | Hindi | – | |
| Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi | – | ||
| 2010 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | For his contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada |  |
| 2011 | Pratibha Ray | Yajnaseni | Oriya |  |
| 2012 | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Paakudurallu | Telugu | |
| 2013 | Kedarnath Singh | Akaal Mein Saras | Hindi |  |
| 2014 | Bhalchandra Nemade | Kosala | Marathi | – |
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