Recipients of the Jnanpith Award

Punjabi poet (1919–2005)

Indian writer

Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (1926-2016)

Indian Hindi writer and poet (1907-1987)

Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)

Indian writer (1925–2019)

Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 – 11 November 1994), popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of the 20th century. He was the first Kannada writer to receive the Jnanpith Award.

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Indian hindi poet, essayis (1908-1974)

Indian writer (1927–2007)

Indian writer (1898–1971)

Indian writer

Indian writer (1942–2011)

Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. He is regarded as the pioneer of the Prayogavaad (experimentalism) movement in modern Hindi literature.

Indian writer (1909–1995)

Indian writer

Urdu author (1896-1982)

Indian writer

D. Jayakanthan (24 April 1934 – 8 April 2015), popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and went to Madras, where he joined the Communist Party of India. In a career spanning six decades, he authored around 40 novels, 200 short stories, apart from two autobiographies. Outside literature, he made two films. In addition, four of his other novels were adapted into films by others.

Indian writer (1929–2005)

Indian writer

Indian writer

Indian author (1925–2010)

Indian poet (1932-2021)

Indian writer and critic in the Kannada language

Indian writer (1902-1997)

Indian writer (1891–1986)

Indian writer (1925–2011)

Indian author, screenplay writer and film director (1933–2024)

Kannada poet (1896–1981)

Jnanpith Award recipient in Sanskrit. Indian academic

Urdu writer from India (1913-2000)

Indian writer (1931–2016)

Indian author

Indian Malayali poet and literary critic (1901-1978)

Jnanpith awardee and renowned Telugu poet

Jnanpith Award winning Telugu writer

writer, novelist (1933–2016)

Indian writer (1926–2020)

Indian writer from Odisha

Indian (Odia) writer (1914-1991)

Indian academic and writer (1936–2012)

Amarkant (1925 – 17 February 2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi literature. His novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007, and Vyas Samman in year 2009. He was awarded Jnanpith Award for the year 2009. Amarkant is considered one of the prominent writers of the story writing tradition of Premchand but certainly is credited to add something better in that tradition by his own individuality.

novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language (1912–1999)

Gujarati poet, scholar and writer. (1911-1988)

Indian Writer who won Jnanpith award in 2012

Indian writer (1924–1997)

Indian poet and writer from Gujarati (1913-2010)

Gujarati author from India

Indian writer (1909–1992)

Kashmiri poet (1925–2023)

Indian writer and poet (1909-1982)

Indian politician and writer (1913–1982)

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was a Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived.

Indian writer (1919–2003)

Akilandam (1922–1988), better known by his pen name Akilan, was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Tamil. He was attracted by Gandhian philosophy during his school days and he discontinued his college education at Pudukkottai to join the freedom struggle. Later, after Indian independence, he joined the Railway Mail Service, after which he joined the All India Radio and became a full-fledged writer. His stories began to appear mostly in small magazines.

Indian writer (1889–1976)

writer from Odisha, India

Indian writer (1922–2000)

Indian poet (1927–2017)