The Jnanpith Award is the literary award in India presented by a trust Bharatiya Jnanpith. Bharatiya Jnanpith was founded by the Sahu Jain family, they were the publishers of the newspaper, The Times of India. The award carries a bronze replica of Saraswati (the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts), a citation plaque and a check for Rs. 700,000.
Recipients of Jnanpith Award
1965 - G Sankara Kurup - Odakkuzhal (Flute) - Malayalam
1966 - Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya - 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 Kalpavrikshamu - Telugu
1971 - Bishnu Dey - Smriti Satta Bhavishyat - Bengali
1972 - Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' - Urvashi - Hindi
1973 - Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre - Nakutanti - Kannada
1973 - Gopinath Mohanty - Paraja - Oriya
1974 - Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar - Yayati - Marathi
1975 - P.V.Akilan - Chitttrappavai - Tamil
1976 - Asha Purna Devi - Pratham Pratisruti - Bengali
1977 - K.Shivaram Karanth - Mookajjiya Kanasugalu - Kannada
1978 - Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' - Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar - Hindi
1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya - Mrityunjay - Assamese
1980 - S. K. Pottekkatt - Oru Desattinte Katha - Malayalam
1981 - Amrita Pritam - Kagaj te Canvas - Punjabi
1982 - Mahadevi Varma - Yama - Hindi
1983 - Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar - Chikkaveera Rajendra - Kannada
1984 - Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai - Kayar - Malayalam
1985 - Pannalal Patel - Maanavi Ni Bhavaai - Gujarati
1986 - Sachidananda Rout Roy - Oriya
1987 - Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) - Natsamrat - Marathi
1988 - Dr.C. Narayana Reddy - Vishwambhara - Telugu
1989 - Qurratulain Hyder - Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar - Urdu
1990 - V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) - Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi - Kannada
1991 - Subhas Mukhopadhyay - Bengali
1992 - Naresh Mehta - Hindi
1993 - Sitakant Mahapatra - Oriya
1994 - U.R. Ananthamurthy - Kannada
1995 - M. T. Vasudevan Nair - Randamoozham - Malayalam
1996 - Mahasweta Devi - Bengali
1997 - Ali Sardar Jafri - Urdu
1998 - Girish Karnad - Kannada
1999 - Nirmal Verma - Hindi
1999 - Gurdial Singh - Punjabi
2000 - Indira Goswami - Assamese
2001 - Rajendra Keshavlal Shah - Gujarati
2002 - D. Jayakanthan - Tamil
2003 - Vinda Karandikar - Ashtadarshana (poetry) - Marathi
2004 - Rahman Rahi - Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz - Kashmiri
2005 - Kunwar Narayan - Hindi
2006 - Ravindra Kelekar - Konkani
2006 - Satya Vrat Shastri - Sanskrit
