First Jnanpith Award Winners from Different Languages

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The Jnanpith Award is conferred by Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organization founded in 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and and his wife Rama Jain. The award was instituted in 1961 but first awarded in 1965. The award consists of a citation plaque, a cash prize and a bronze replica of Saraswati. The award is open only for Indian citizens.


1.First Person to win the awardG. Sankara Kurup1965
2.First woman to win the awardAshapurna Devi1976

Language-wise First Winners

#LanguageAuthorYear
1.MalayalamG. Sankara Kurup1965
2.BengaliTarashankar Bandyopadhyay1966
3.GujaratiUmashankar Joshi1967
4.KannadaK. Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu)1967
5.HindiSumitranandan Pant1968
6.UrduFiraq Gorakhpuri1969
7.TeluguVishwanatha Satyanarayana1970
8.OdiaGopinath Mohanty1973
9.MarathiVishnu Sakharam Khandekar1974
10.TamilAkilan1975
11.AssameseBirendra Kumar Bhattacharya1979
12.PunjabiAmrita Pritam1981
13.KashmiriRehman Rahi2004
14.KonkaniRavindra Kelekar2006
15.SanskritSatya Vrat Shastri2006
16.EnglishAmitav Ghosh2018