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Jnapith Award Winner S.No. Year Recipient Name Language 1 1965 G. Sankara Karup Malyalam 2 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Bengali 3 Umashakar Joshi Gujarati 1967 4 Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttapa Kannada 5 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Hindi 6 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu 7 1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu 8 1971 Bishnu Dey Bengali 9 1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Hindi 10 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Kannada 1973 11 Gopinath Mohanty Oriya 12 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Marathi 13 1975 P.V. Akilan Tamil 14 1976 Ashapurna Devi Bengali 15 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Kannada 16 1978 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Hindi 17 1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Assamese 18 1980 S.K. Pottekkatt Malyalam 19 1981 Amrita Pritam Punjabi 20 1982 Mahadevi Verma Hindi 21 1983 Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Kannada 22 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malyalam 23 1985 Pannalal Patel Gujarati 24 1986 Sachchidananda Routray Oriya 25 1987 Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Marathi 26 1988 C. Narayan Reddy Telugu 27 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Urdu 28 1990 VinayakaCOMPETEEXAM.COM Krishna Gokak Kannada 29 1991 Subhash Mukhopadhyaya Bengali 30 1992 Naresh Mehta Hindi 31 1993 Sitakant Mahapatra Oriya 32 1994 U.R. Ananthamurthy Kannada 33 1995 M.T. Vasudevan Nair Malyalam 34 1996 Mahasweta Devi Bengali 35 1997 Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu 36 1998 Girish Karnad Kannada 37 Nirmal Verma Hindi 1999 38 Gurdial Singh Punjabi 39 2000 Indira Goswami Assamese 40 2001 Rajendra Shah Gujarati 41 2002 D. Jayakanthan Tamil
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42 2003 Vinda Karandikar Marathi 43 2004 Rehman Rahi Kashmiri 44 2005 Kunwar Narayan Hindi 45 Ravindra Kelekar Konkani 2006 46 Satya Vrat Shahstri Sanskrit 47 2007 O.N.V. Kurup Malyalam 48 2008 Akhlaq Muhammad Khan 'Shahryar" Urdu 49 Amar Kant Hindi 2009 50 Sri Lal Sukla Hindi 51 2010 Chandrasekhara Kambara Kannada 52 2011 Pratibha Ray Oriya 53 2012 Ravuri Bharadwaja Telugu 54 2013 Kedarnath Singh Hindi
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