Gyanpith Award

The Gyanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English, with no posthumous conferral.

Year	Gyanpith Award winners	Language
1965	G.Sankara Kurup	Malayalam
1966	Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya	Bengali
1967	Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa	Kannada
1967	Joshi	Gujarati
1968	Sumitranandan Pant	Nope
1969	firaq gorakhpur	Urdu
1970	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Telugu
1971	Bishnu Dey	Bengali
1972	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Nope
1973	Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre	Kannada
1973	Gopinath Mohanty	Oriya
1974	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar	Marathi
1975	PV Akilan	Tamil
1976	Ashapurna Devi	Bengali
1977	K.Shivaram Karanth	Kannada
1978	Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya'	Nope
1979	Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese
1980	SK Pottekkatt	Malayalam
1981	Amrita Pritam	Punjabi
1982	Mahadevi Verma	Nope
1983	Masti Venkatesh Iyengar	Kannada
1984	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai	Malayalam
1985	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1986	Sachidananda Routray	Oriya
1987	Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar	Marathi
1988	Dr. C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1990	Vinayaka Krishna Gokak	Kannada
1991	subhas mukhopadhyay	Bengali
1992	Naresh Mehta	Nope
1993	Sitakant Mahapatra	Oriya
1994	UR Ananthamurthy	Kannada
1995	Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam
1996	Mahasweta Devi	Bengali
1997	Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu
1998	Girish Karnad	Kannada
1999	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
1999	Nirmal Verma	Nope
2000	Indira Goswami	Assamese
2001	Rajendra Shah	Gujarati
2002	D.Jayakanthan	Tamil
2003	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2004	Rehman Rahi	Kashmiri
2005	Kunwar Narayan	Nope
2006	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2006	Satya Vrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2007	Dr. ONV Kurup	Malayalam
2008	Akhlaq Mohammed Khan	Urdu
2009	Amar Kant	Nope
2009	Shrilal Shukla	Nope
2010	Chandrashekhar Kambara	Kannada
2011	Pratibha Ray	Oriya
2012	Rawal Bharadwaj	Telegu
2013	Kedarnath Singh	Nope
2014	Bhalchandra Nemade	Marathi
2015	Dr.Raghuveer Chowdhary	Gujarati
2016	Shanka Ghosh	Bengali
2017	Krishna Sobti	Nope
2018	Amitav Ghosh	English
2019	Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri	Malayalam
2021	Nilamani Phookan	Assamese
2022	Damodar Sales	Konkani