List of Jnanpith Award winners

 

Year	Recipient	Language
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1966	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay	Bengali
1967	Umashankar Joshi	Gujarati
1967	Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu'	Kannada
1968	Sumitranandan Pant	Hindi
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1970	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Telugu
1971	Bishnu Dey	Bengali
1972	Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'	Hindi
1973	D. R. Bendre	Kannada
1973	Gopinath Mohanty	Odia
1974	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Marathi
1975	Akilan	Tamil
1976	Ashapoorna 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 Iyengar	Kannada
1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1985	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1986	Sachidananda Routray	Odia
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj'	Marathi
1988	C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1990	Vinayaka Krishna Gokak	Kannada
1991	Subhash 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
1999	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
2000	Mamoni Raisom Goswami	Assamese
2001	Rajendra Shah	Gujarati
2002	Jayakanthan	Tamil
2003	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2004	Rehman Rahi	Kashmiri
2005	Kunwar Narayan	Hindi
2006	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2006	Satya Vrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2007	O. N. V. Kurup	Malayalam
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar'	Urdu
2009	Amarkant	Hindi
2009	Sri Lal Sukla	Hindi
2010	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Kannada
2011	Pratibha Ray	Odia
2012	Ravuri Bharadhwaja	Telugu
2013	Kedarnath Singh	Hindi
2014	Bhalchandra Nemade	Marathi
2015	Raghuveer Chaudhari	Gujarati
2016	Shankha Ghosh	Bengali
2017	Krishna Sobti	Hindi
2018	Amitav Ghosh	English
2019	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri	Malayalam