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Jnanpith Award

May 10, 2023

The Jnanpith 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,[a] with no posthumous conferral.[2]

Jnanpith Award
Award for individual contributions to Literature
Instituted in 1961
Citation plaque
Awarded forLiterary award in India
Sponsored byBharatiya Jnanpith
Reward(s)₹11 lakh (equivalent to ₹14 lakh or US$18,000 in 2020)
First awarded1965
Last awarded2022
Most recent winnerDamodar Mauzo
Highlights
Total awarded62
First winnerG. Sankara Kurup
Websitejnanpith.net

From 1965 till 1981, the award was given to the authors for their "most outstanding work" and consisted of a citation plaque, a cash prize and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom.[3][4][5] The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), published in 1950.[6] The rules were revised in subsequent years to consider only works published during the preceding twenty years, excluding the year for which the award was to be given and the cash prize was increased to ₹1.5 lakh (equivalent to ₹26 lakh or US$33,000 in 2020) from 1981.[7]

As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to ₹11 lakh (equivalent to ₹14 lakh or US$18,000 in 2020) and out of twenty-three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in sixteen languages: Hindi (eleven), Kannada (eight), Bengali and Malayalam (six each), Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, and Urdu (four each), Assamese and Telugu (three each), Punjabi, Tamil and Konkani (two each), English, Kashmiri and Sanskrit (one each). The award has been conferred upon fifty-eight writers including eight women authors. In 1976, Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Prothom Protishruti (The First Promise), the first in a trilogy.[b][8] The most recent recipients of the award are Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan and Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo, awarded for the years of 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Background

The Bharatiya Jnanpith, a research and cultural institute founded in 1944 by industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family, conceived an idea in May 1961 to start a scheme "commanding national prestige and of international standard" to "select the best book out of the publications in Indian languages".[3][7] Later in November, Rama Jain, the Founder President of the Bharatiya Dnyanpith, invited a few literary experts to discuss various aspects of the scheme. Jain along with Kaka Kalelkar, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Jainendra Kumar, Jagdish Chandra Mathur, Prabhakar Machwe, Akshaya Kumar Jain, and Lakshmi Chandra Jain presented the initial draft to the then President of India Rajendra Prasad who had shown interest in the scheme's implementation. The idea was also discussed at the 1962 annual sessions of the All India Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad.[3]

On 2 April 1962, around 300 writers of various Indian languages were invited to Delhi for the two sessions conducted by Dharamvir Bharati in which the draft was finalised and later presented to Prasad. The first award selection committee meeting was scheduled on 16 March 1963 and Prasad was appointed as its president.[3] However, Prasad died on 28 February 1963 and thus the scheduled meeting was chaired by Kalelkar and Sampurnanand acted as president of the committee.[3][9]

The first Selection Board consisted of Kalelkar, Niharranjan Ray, Karan Singh, R. R. Diwakar, V. Raghavan, B. Gopal Reddy, Harekrushna Mahatab, Rama Jain, and Lakshmi Chandra Jain and was headed by Sampurnanand. Works that were published between 1921 and 1951 were considered for the first award. The nine language committees that were formed were to submit to the board nominations along with translations of the work into Hindi or English. The final round had four authors; Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali), D. V. Gundappa (Kannada), Viswanatha Satyanarayana (Telugu), and G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam). On 19 November 1966, Kurup was presented with the citation, statue of Saraswati, and a cheque for prize of ₹1 lakh (equivalent to ₹51 lakh or US$64,000 in 2020) at a ceremony held at Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi.[c] In his acceptance speech, Kurup appreciated the concept of the new award and thanked it for bringing "integration of the diverse people of this land on a spiritual plane".[10]

Rules and selection process

The nominations for the award are received from various literary experts, teachers, critics, universities, and numerous literary and language associations. Every three years, an advisory committee is constituted for each of the languages.[3] The language of the most recent recipient's work is not eligible for consideration for the next two years.[2] Each committee consists of three literary critics and scholars of their respective languages. All the nominations are scrutinised by the committee and their recommendations are submitted to the Jnanpith Award Selection Board.

The Selection Board consists of between seven and eleven members of "high repute and integrity". Each member is part of the committee for a term of three years which can also be extended further for two more terms.[3] The recommendations of all language advisory committees are evaluated by the board based on complete or partial translations of the selected writings of the proposed writers into Hindi or English. The recipient for a particular year is announced by the Selection Board, which has final authority in selection.[2]

List of recipients

Key
† Indicates a joint award for the given year
 
G. Sankara Kurup was the first recipient of the award.
 
Damodar Mauzo is the most recent recipient of the award.
List of award recipients, showing the year, and language(s)[11]
Year Recipient(s) Language(s) Refs./Notes
1965
(1st) 		G. Sankara Kurup Malayalam [d][12]
1966
(2nd) 		Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Bengali [e][12]
1967
(3rd) † 		Umashankar Joshi Gujarati [f][12]
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' Kannada [g][12]
1968
(4th) 		Sumitranandan Pant Hindi [h][12]
1969
(5th) 		Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu [i][12]
1970
(6th) 		Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu [j][12]
1971
(7th) 		Bishnu Dey Bengali [k][12]
1972
(8th) 		Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Hindi [l][12]
1973
(9th) † 		D. R. Bendre Kannada [m][12]
Gopinath Mohanty Odia [n][12]
1974
(10th) 		Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Marathi [o][12]
1975
(11th) 		Akilan Tamil [p][12]
1976
(12th) 		Ashapoorna Devi Bengali [q][12]
1977
(13th) 		K. Shivaram Karanth Kannada [r][12]
1978
(14th) 		Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Hindi [s][12]
1979
(15th) 		Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Assamese [t][12]
1980
(16th) 		S. K. Pottekkatt Malayalam [u][12]
1981
(17th) 		Amrita Pritam Punjabi [v][12]
1982
(18th) 		Mahadevi Varma Hindi [13]
1983
(19th) 		Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Kannada [14]
1984
(20th) 		Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malayalam [15]
1985
(21st) 		Pannalal Patel Gujarati [16]
1986
(22nd) 		Sachidananda Routray Odia [17]
1987
(23rd) 		Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj' Marathi [18]
1988
(24th) 		C. Narayana Reddy Telugu [19]
1989
(25th) 		Qurratulain Hyder Urdu [20]
1990
(26th) 		Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada [21]
1991
(27th) 		Subhash Mukhopadhyay Bengali [22]
1992
(28th) 		Naresh Mehta Hindi [23]
1993
(29th) 		Sitakant Mahapatra Odia [24]
1994
(30th) 		U. R. Ananthamurthy Kannada [25]
1995
(31st) 		M. T. Vasudevan Nair Malayalam [26]
1996
(32nd) 		Mahasweta Devi Bengali [27]
1997
(33rd) 		Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu [28]
1998
(34th) 		Girish Karnad Kannada [29]
1999
(35th) † 		Nirmal Verma Hindi [30]
Gurdial Singh Punjabi [30]
2000
(36th) 		Mamoni Raisom Goswami Assamese [31]
2001
(37th) 		Rajendra Shah Gujarati [32]
2002
(38th) 		Jayakanthan Tamil [33]
2003
(39th) 		Vinda Karandikar Marathi [34]
2004
(40th) 		Rehman Rahi Kashmiri [35]
2005
(41st) 		Kunwar Narayan Hindi [36]
2006
(42nd) † 		Ravindra Kelekar Konkani [36]
Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit [36]
2007
(43rd) 		O. N. V. Kurup Malayalam [37]
2008
(44th) 		Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' Urdu [38]
2009
(45th) † 		Amarkant Hindi [39]
Sri Lal Sukla Hindi [39]
2010
(46th) 		Chandrashekhara Kambara Kannada [40]
2011
(47th) 		Pratibha Ray Odia [41]
2012
(48th) 		Ravuri Bharadhwaja Telugu [42]
2013
(49th) 		Kedarnath Singh Hindi [43]
2014
(50th) 		Bhalchandra Nemade Marathi [44]
2015
(51st) 		Raghuveer Chaudhari Gujarati [45]
2016
(52nd) 		Shankha Ghosh Bengali [46]
2017
(53rd) 		Krishna Sobti Hindi [47]
2018
(54th) 		Amitav Ghosh English [48]
2019
(55th) 		Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri Malayalam [49]
2021
(56th) 		Nilamani Phookan Assamese [50]
2022
(57th) 		Damodar Mauzo Konkani [51]

See also

  • Moortidevi Award, another annual literary award conferred by the Bharatiya Jnanpith.

Notes

  1. ^ The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India consists of twenty-two languages viz. Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.[1]
  2. ^ The trilogy consists of Prothom Protishruti, Subarnalata, and Bakul Katha.
  3. ^ The Malayalam language committee headed by N. V. Krishna Warrier submitted an undisputed nomination of Kurup's work Odakkuzhal although the Kerala Sahitya Akademi opined that no work in Malayalam language was worthy of the inaugural prize.[10]
  4. ^ Awarded for Odakkuzhal.
  5. ^ Awarded for Ganadevta.
  6. ^ Awarded for Nishitha.
  7. ^ Awarded for Sri Ramayana Darshanam.
  8. ^ Awarded for Chidambara.
  9. ^ Awarded for Gul-e-Naghma.
  10. ^ Awarded for Ramayana Kalpavrukshamu.
  11. ^ Awarded for Smriti Satta Bhavishyat.
  12. ^ Awarded for Urvashi.
  13. ^ Awarded for Nakutanti.
  14. ^ Awarded for Matimatal.
  15. ^ Awarded for Yayati.
  16. ^ Awarded for Chitttrappavai.
  17. ^ Awarded for Pratham Pratisruti.
  18. ^ Awarded for Mookajjiya Kanasugalu.
  19. ^ Awarded for Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar.
  20. ^ Awarded for Mrityunjay.
  21. ^ Awarded for Oru Desathinte Katha.
  22. ^ Awarded for Kagaj te Canvas.

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Bibliography

  • Sabharwal, Gopa (2007). India Since 1947: The Independent Years. Penguin Books India. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-14-310274-8.

Further reading

  • Bandyopadhyay, Tarasankar (2009). Ganadevta (in Hindi) (17 ed.). Bhartiya Jnanpith. ISBN 978-81-263-1675-5.
  • Pant, Sumitranandan (1991). Chidambara (in Hindi). Rajkamal Prakashan. p. 353. ISBN 978-81-267-0491-0.
  • Gorakhpuri, Firaq (2008). Gul-e-Naghma (in Hindi). Translated by Raza, Jafar. Rajkamal Prakashan. p. 278. ISBN 978-81-8031-285-4.
  • Dinkar, Ramdhari Singh (2014). उर्वशी: खण्ड काव्य [Urvashi: Poetic Novel] (in Hindi). Bhartiya Sahitya. ISBN 978-1-61301-343-4.
  • Khandekar, Vishnu Sakharam (1978). Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust. Translated by Kulkarni, Y. P. Orient Paperbacks. p. 258. ISBN 978-81-222-0428-5.
  • Devi, Ashapurna (2004). Pratham Pratisruti [The First Promise]. Translated by Chowdhury, Indira. Orient Blackswan. p. 541. ISBN 978-81-250-2650-1.
  • Karanth, K. Shivarama (2014). Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Dreams of Mookajji] (in Kannada). Sapna Book House. p. 279. ISBN 978-81-7285-062-3.
  • Vatsyayan, Sachchidananda (2000). Kitni Navon Mein Kitni Baar (in Hindi). Bharatiya Jnanpith. p. 100. ISBN 978-81-263-0073-0.
  • Pritam, Amrita (1989). Kagaz Aur Canvas [Paper and Canvas] (in Hindi). Translated by Shanta. Rajkamal Prakashan. p. 155. ISBN 978-81-267-0492-7.

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The Jnanpith 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 a with no posthumous conferral 2 Jnanpith AwardAward for individual contributions to LiteratureInstituted in 1961Citation plaqueAwarded forLiterary award in IndiaSponsored byBharatiya JnanpithReward s 11 lakh equivalent to 14 lakh or US 18 000 in 2020 First awarded1965Last awarded2022Most recent winnerDamodar MauzoHighlightsTotal awarded62First winnerG Sankara KurupWebsitejnanpith wbr netFrom 1965 till 1981 the award was given to the authors for their most outstanding work and consisted of a citation plaque a cash prize and a bronze replica of Saraswati the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom 3 4 5 The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems Odakkuzhal The Bamboo Flute published in 1950 6 The rules were revised in subsequent years to consider only works published during the preceding twenty years excluding the year for which the award was to be given and the cash prize was increased to 1 5 lakh equivalent to 26 lakh or US 33 000 in 2020 from 1981 7 As of 2015 update the cash prize has been revised to 11 lakh equivalent to 14 lakh or US 18 000 in 2020 and out of twenty three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in sixteen languages Hindi eleven Kannada eight Bengali and Malayalam six each Gujarati Marathi Odia and Urdu four each Assamese and Telugu three each Punjabi Tamil and Konkani two each English Kashmiri and Sanskrit one each The award has been conferred upon fifty eight writers including eight women authors In 1976 Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Prothom Protishruti The First Promise the first in a trilogy b 8 The most recent recipients of the award are Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan and Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo awarded for the years of 2021 and 2022 respectively Contents 1 Background 2 Rules and selection process 3 List of recipients 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External linksBackground EditThe Bharatiya Jnanpith a research and cultural institute founded in 1944 by industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family conceived an idea in May 1961 to start a scheme commanding national prestige and of international standard to select the best book out of the publications in Indian languages 3 7 Later in November Rama Jain the Founder President of the Bharatiya Dnyanpith invited a few literary experts to discuss various aspects of the scheme Jain along with Kaka Kalelkar Harivansh Rai Bachchan Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Jainendra Kumar Jagdish Chandra Mathur Prabhakar Machwe Akshaya Kumar Jain and Lakshmi Chandra Jain presented the initial draft to the then President of India Rajendra Prasad who had shown interest in the scheme s implementation The idea was also discussed at the 1962 annual sessions of the All India Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad 3 On 2 April 1962 around 300 writers of various Indian languages were invited to Delhi for the two sessions conducted by Dharamvir Bharati in which the draft was finalised and later presented to Prasad The first award selection committee meeting was scheduled on 16 March 1963 and Prasad was appointed as its president 3 However Prasad died on 28 February 1963 and thus the scheduled meeting was chaired by Kalelkar and Sampurnanand acted as president of the committee 3 9 The first Selection Board consisted of Kalelkar Niharranjan Ray Karan Singh R R Diwakar V Raghavan B Gopal Reddy Harekrushna Mahatab Rama Jain and Lakshmi Chandra Jain and was headed by Sampurnanand Works that were published between 1921 and 1951 were considered for the first award The nine language committees that were formed were to submit to the board nominations along with translations of the work into Hindi or English The final round had four authors Kazi Nazrul Islam Bengali D V Gundappa Kannada Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu and G Sankara Kurup Malayalam On 19 November 1966 Kurup was presented with the citation statue of Saraswati and a cheque for prize of 1 lakh equivalent to 51 lakh or US 64 000 in 2020 at a ceremony held at Vigyan Bhavan Delhi c In his acceptance speech Kurup appreciated the concept of the new award and thanked it for bringing integration of the diverse people of this land on a spiritual plane 10 Rules and selection process EditThe nominations for the award are received from various literary experts teachers critics universities and numerous literary and language associations Every three years an advisory committee is constituted for each of the languages 3 The language of the most recent recipient s work is not eligible for consideration for the next two years 2 Each committee consists of three literary critics and scholars of their respective languages All the nominations are scrutinised by the committee and their recommendations are submitted to the Jnanpith Award Selection Board The Selection Board consists of between seven and eleven members of high repute and integrity Each member is part of the committee for a term of three years which can also be extended further for two more terms 3 The recommendations of all language advisory committees are evaluated by the board based on complete or partial translations of the selected writings of the proposed writers into Hindi or English The recipient for a particular year is announced by the Selection Board which has final authority in selection 2 List of recipients EditKey Indicates a joint award for the given year G Sankara Kurup was the first recipient of the award Damodar Mauzo is the most recent recipient of the award List of award recipients showing the year and language s 11 Year Recipient s Language s Refs Notes1965 1st G Sankara Kurup Malayalam d 12 1966 2nd Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Bengali e 12 1967 3rd Umashankar Joshi Gujarati f 12 Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa Kuvempu Kannada g 12 1968 4th Sumitranandan Pant Hindi h 12 1969 5th Firaq Gorakhpuri Urdu i 12 1970 6th Viswanatha Satyanarayana Telugu j 12 1971 7th Bishnu Dey Bengali k 12 1972 8th Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Hindi l 12 1973 9th D R Bendre Kannada m 12 Gopinath Mohanty Odia n 12 1974 10th Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Marathi o 12 1975 11th Akilan Tamil p 12 1976 12th Ashapoorna Devi Bengali q 12 1977 13th K Shivaram Karanth Kannada r 12 1978 14th Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Hindi s 12 1979 15th Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Assamese t 12 1980 16th S K Pottekkatt Malayalam u 12 1981 17th Amrita Pritam Punjabi v 12 1982 18th Mahadevi Varma Hindi 13 1983 19th Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Kannada 14 1984 20th Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malayalam 15 1985 21st Pannalal Patel Gujarati 16 1986 22nd Sachidananda Routray Odia 17 1987 23rd Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj Marathi 18 1988 24th C Narayana Reddy Telugu 19 1989 25th Qurratulain Hyder Urdu 20 1990 26th Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada 21 1991 27th Subhash Mukhopadhyay Bengali 22 1992 28th Naresh Mehta Hindi 23 1993 29th Sitakant Mahapatra Odia 24 1994 30th U R Ananthamurthy Kannada 25 1995 31st M T Vasudevan Nair Malayalam 26 1996 32nd Mahasweta Devi Bengali 27 1997 33rd Ali Sardar Jafri Urdu 28 1998 34th Girish Karnad Kannada 29 1999 35th Nirmal Verma Hindi 30 Gurdial Singh Punjabi 30 2000 36th Mamoni Raisom Goswami Assamese 31 2001 37th Rajendra Shah Gujarati 32 2002 38th Jayakanthan Tamil 33 2003 39th Vinda Karandikar Marathi 34 2004 40th Rehman Rahi Kashmiri 35 2005 41st Kunwar Narayan Hindi 36 2006 42nd Ravindra Kelekar Konkani 36 Satya Vrat Shastri Sanskrit 36 2007 43rd O N V Kurup Malayalam 37 2008 44th Akhlaq Mohammed Khan Shahryar Urdu 38 2009 45th Amarkant Hindi 39 Sri Lal Sukla Hindi 39 2010 46th Chandrashekhara Kambara Kannada 40 2011 47th Pratibha Ray Odia 41 2012 48th Ravuri Bharadhwaja Telugu 42 2013 49th Kedarnath Singh Hindi 43 2014 50th Bhalchandra Nemade Marathi 44 2015 51st Raghuveer Chaudhari Gujarati 45 2016 52nd Shankha Ghosh Bengali 46 2017 53rd Krishna Sobti Hindi 47 2018 54th Amitav Ghosh English 48 2019 55th Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri Malayalam 49 2021 56th Nilamani Phookan Assamese 50 2022 57th Damodar Mauzo Konkani 51 See also EditMoortidevi Award another annual literary award conferred by the Bharatiya Jnanpith Notes Edit The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India consists of twenty two languages viz Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Manipuri Marathi Nepali Odia Punjabi Sanskrit Santhali Sindhi Tamil Telugu and Urdu 1 The trilogy consists of Prothom Protishruti Subarnalata and Bakul Katha The Malayalam language committee headed by 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