List of the Jnanpith Award Winners from 1965to 2010 - Improve Your General Knowledge

The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. 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
Name	Language/State	Year
Shankara Kurup	Malayalam	1965
Trashankar Bandopadjya	Bengali	1966
Dr K V Puttappa	Kannada	1967
Uma Shankar Joshi	Gujarati	1967
Smitra Nandan Pant	Hindi	1968
Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu	1969
Vishanath Satyanaryanan	Telugu	1970
Bishnu Dey	Bengali	1971
Ramdhari Singh Dinakar	Hindi	1972
Dattaterya Ramachandran Bendre	Kannada	1973
Gopinath Mohanty	Oriya	1973
Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar	Marathi	1974
P V Akilandam	Tamil	1975
Ashapurna Devu	Bengli	1976
K Shivaram Karanth	Kannada	1977
S H V Ajneya	Hindi	1978
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese	1979
S K Pottekkatt	Malayalam	1980
Amrita Pritam	Punjabi	1981
Mahadevi Varma	Hindi	1982
Masti Venkatesh Ayengar	Kannada	1983
Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai	Malayalam	1984
Pannaalal Patel	Gujarati	1985
Sachianand Rout Roy	Oriya	1986
Vihnu Varman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj	Marathi	1987
C Narayanan Reddy	Telugu	1988
Qurrtul –ain haider	Urdu	1989
V K Gokk	Kannada	1990
Subhash Mukhopadhya	Bengali	1991
Naresh Mehta	Hindi	1992
Sitakant Mahapatra	Oriya	1993
U R Anantha Murthy	Kannada	1994
M T Vasudevan  Nair	Malayalam	1995
Mahashveta  Devi	Bengali	1996
Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu	1997
Girish Karnad	Kannada	1998
Nirmal  Varma	Hindi	1999
Gurudial Singh	Punjabi	1999
Dr indira Goswami	Assamese	2000
Rajendra Keshavlal Shah	Gujarati	2001
D Jayakanthan	Tamil	2002
Vinda Karandikar	Marathi	2003
Rahman Rahi	Jammu & Kashmir	2004
Kunwar Narayan	UP	2005
Ravindra Kelekar	Goa	2006
Satya Vrat Shastri	UP	2006
O N V Kurup	Kerala	2007
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan	UP	2008
Amar Kant	UP	2009
Shrilal Shukla	UP	2009
Chandrasekhara Kambara	Karnataka	2010
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