Recipients of Jnanpith Awards

Year	Laureates Awarded	Language
2008	Akhlaq Khan Shahryar	Urdu
2007	O. N. V. Kurup	Malayalam
2006	Satyavrat Shastri	Sanskrit
2006	Ravindra Kelekar	Konkani
2005	Kunwar Narain	Hindi
2004	Rahman Rahi	Kashmiri
2003	Vinda Karandikar	Marathi
2002	D. Jayakanthan	Tamil
2001	Rajendra Shah	Gujarati
2000	Indira Goswami	Assamese
1999	Nirmal Verma	Hindi
1999	Gurdial Singh	Punjabi
1998	Girish Karnad	Kannada
1997	Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu
1996	Mahasveta Devi	Bangla
1995	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam
1994	U.R. Anantha Murthy	Kannada
1993	Sitakant Mahapatra	Oriya
1992	Naresh Mehta	Hindi
1991	Subhash Mukhopadhyaya	Bangla
1990	V.K. Gokak	Kannada
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Urdu
1988	C. Narayana Reddy	Telugu
1987	V.V.S. ‘Kusumagraj’	Marathi
1986	Satchidanand Rautroy	Oriya
1985	Pannalal Patel	Gujarati
1984	Thakazhi S. Pillai	Malayalam
1983	Masti V. Iyengar	Kannada
1982	Mahadevi Varma	Hindi
1981	Amrita Pritam	Punjabi
1980	S.K. Pottekkatt	Malayalam,
1979	B.K. Bhattacharya	Assamese
1978	S.H.V. Ajneya	Hindi
1977	K.S. Karanth	Kannada
1976	Ashapurna Devi	Bangla
1975	P.V. Akilandam	Tamil
1974	V.S. Khandekar	Marathi
1973	D.R. Bendre	Kannada,
1973	Gopinath Mohanty	Oriya
1972	Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar’	Hindi
1971	Bishnu Dey	Bangla
1970	V. Satyanarayana	Telugu
1969	Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu
1968	Sumitranandan Pant	Hindi
1967	Uma Shankar Joshi	Gujarati
1967	K.V. Puttappa	Kannada
1966	T.S. Bandyopadhyaya	Bangla
1965	G. Sankara Kurup	Malayalam