Jnanpith Award

Jnanpith Award
Awarded by Bharatiya Jnanpith
Category Literature (Individual)
Description
Description Literary award
in India
Statistics
Instituted 1961
First awarded 1965
Last awarded 2015
Total awarded 51
First awardee(s) G. Sankara Kurup
Last awardee(s) Raghuveer Chaudhari

The Jnanpith Award (also spelled as Gyanpeeth Award) is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship,[1] it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country.[2] The award was instituted in 1961. Eligibility is restricted to any Indian citizen who writes in one of the 22 languages listed in Schedule Eight of the Indian constitution. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the newspaper The Times of India.

The Award

The name of the award is taken from Sanskrit words jnāna and pīṭha (knowledge-seat). 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.[3]

Prior to 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer; since then, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian literature. As of 2014 most Jananpith award winners, ten have been writing in Hindi followed by eight in Kannada, five each in Bengali and Malayalam, four each in Oriya, Urdu and Marathi and three each in Gujarati and Telugu and two each in Assamese and Tamil.

Starting with the Bengali writer Ashapoorna Devi in 1976, seven women writers have won the award so far. The other recipients include Amrita Pritam (1981, Punjabi), Mahadevi Varma (1982, Hindi), Qurratulain Hyder (1989, Urdu), Mahasweta Devi (1996, Bengali), Indira Goswami (2000, Assamese) and Pratibha Ray (2011, Oriya).

The award announcements have lately been lagging behind the award-years. The awards for the years 2005 and 2006 were announced on 22 November 2008, and were awarded to the Hindi writer Kunwar Narayan for 2005 and jointly to Konkani writer Ravindra Kelekar and Sanskrit scholar Satya Vrat Shastri for 2006.[4] Satya Vrat Shastri is the first Sanskrit poet to be conferred the award since its inception.[5] The awards for the 45th and 46th Jnanpith for the years 2009 and 2010 respectively, were announced on 20 September 2011.[6] The 48th Jnanpith award for the year 2012 was announced on 17 April 2013 and was conferred to Telugu novelist, short-story writer and poet Ravuri Bharadhwaja for his overall contribution to Telugu literature.

Jnanpith Award recipients

List of award recipients, showing the year, work(s), and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Refs.
1965 G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal Malayalam
1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Ganadevta Bengali
1967 Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 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 Ashapoorna Devi Pratham Pratisruti Bengali
1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu Kannada
1978 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar Hindi
1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay Assamese
1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha Malayalam
1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas Punjabi
1982 Mahadevi Varma Yama Hindi
1983 Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Chikkaveera Rajendra Kannada
1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar 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. Narayanareddy Viswambhara Telugu
1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar Urdu
1990 V. K. Gokak Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi Kannada
1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padatik 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 Randamoozham 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 [2]
1999 Nirmal Verma Hindi
1999 Gurdial Singh Punjabi
2000 Mamoni Raisom Goswami Datal Hatir Unye Khuwa Howdah Assamese
2001 Rajendra Shah Dhwani Gujarati
2002 Jayakanthan Novels: Oru Manidhan Oru Vidu Oru Ulakam (A Man, a Home and a World), Oru Nadikai Nadakam Parkkiral (Actress watches the Act), Parisukkup Po (Go to Paris), Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal (Certain people at certain times). More than 200 short stories. Non fiction: Oru Ilakkiyavaathiyin Arasiyal Anubhavangal (A Literary Man's Political Experiences), Oru Ilakkiyavaathiyin Aanmeega Anubhavangal (A Literary Man's Spiritual Experiences) Tamil
2003 Vinda Karandikar For his contributions to Marathi literatureMarathi
2004 Rehman Rahi Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz Kashmiri [7]
2005 Kunwar Narayan Hindi [4]
2006 Ravindra Kelekar Konkani [4]
2006 Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit [5][8]
2007 O. N. V. Kurup For his contributions to Malayalam literature Malayalam [9]
2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' Urdu [9]
2009 Amar Kant Hindi [10]
2009 Sri Lal Sukla Hindi [11]
2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara For his contributions to Kannada literature Kannada [11]
2011 Pratibha Ray Yajnaseni Oriya [12]
2012 Ravuri Bharadhwaja Paakudurallu Telugu [13]
2013 Kedarnath Singh Akaal Mein Saras Hindi [14]
2014 Bhalchandra Nemade Hindu: Jagnyachi Samrudhha AdgalMarathi
2015 Raghuveer Chaudhari Novel — Amruta Gujarati [15][16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Report from The Hindu, January 2007. Noted writer Manoj Das (in January 2007) "received the country's highest literary honour – Sahitya Akademi Fellowship."
  2. 1 2 Parvathi Menon (1999). "The multi-faceted playwright". Frontline 16 (3).
  3. ↑ "Jnanpith award for Jayakanthan". The Times of India. 20 March 2005. Retrieved 12 November 2007.
  4. 1 2 3 "Kunwar Narayan to be awarded Jnanpith". The Times of India. 24 Nov 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
  5. 1 2 "Jnanpith Award presented". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 20 August 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  6. ↑ "Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award". The Hindu. 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  7. ↑ Ravindra, Kalia (March 9, 2007). "40th Jnanpith Award to Eminent Kashmiri Poet Shri Rahman Rahi" (PDF) (Press release). Bharatiya Jnanpith. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-04-07. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  8. ↑ Ravindra, Kalia (November 22, 2008). "41st Jnanpith Award to Eminent Hindi Poet Shri Kunwar Narayan and 42nd Jnanpith Award jointly to Eminent Konkani Poet and Author Shri Ravindra Kelekar and Sanskrit Poet and Scholar Shri Satya Vrat Shastri" (PDF) (Press release). Bharatiya Jnanpith. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  9. 1 2 "Malayalam, Urdu writers claim Jnanpith awards". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 25 September 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
  10. ↑ Amar Kant, Shrilal Shukla, Kambar win Jnanpith Award, The Hindu, 20 September 2011.
  11. 1 2 "Jnanpith for Kambar". The Hindu. 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  12. ↑ "Oriya novelist and academician Pratibha Ray wins 2011 Jnanpith Award". ibnlive.in.com. 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012. it was decided that Ray, 69, will be the winner of the 2011 Janapith Award.
  13. ↑ "Ravuri Bharadwaja Gets Gyanpeeth Award" (PDF). Retrieved April 17, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Kedarnath Singh chosen for Jnanpith". Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Gujarati Litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary honoured with 51st Jnanpith Award". mid-day. 2015-12-29. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "Noted Gujarati writer Raghuveer Chaudhary selected for 51st Jnanpith award". Jagranjosh.com. Retrieved 2016-02-27.

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