Jnanpith Award

• The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India,  instituted in 1961.

• Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour.

• Presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.

• G. Sankara Kurup is the first to receive the award in 1965.

• First women to receive this award is Bengali writer Ashapoorna Devi in 1976.

• The 48th Jnanpith award for the year 2012 conferred to Telugu novelist, short-story writer and poet Ravuri Bharadhwaja for his work Paakudu Raallu.
• 49th - 2013 kedarnath singh - Hindi 
• 50th - 2014 Bhalachandra Namade - Marathi
• 51st - 2015 Raghuveer Chaudari - Gujarathi
• 52nd - 2016 Shanka Ghosh - Bengali
• 53rd - 2017 Krishna Sobti - Hindi

Language	Number of Individuals Received Jnanpith Award
Hindi	11
Kannada	8
Bengali	6
Malayalam	5
Oriya	4
Urdu	4
Gujatathi	4
Marathi	4
Telugu	3
Assamese	2
Tamil	2

List of women recieved Jnanpith Award

1976	Ashapurna Devi	Pratham Pratisruti	Bengali
1981	Amrita Pritam	Kagaj te Canvas	Punjabi
1982	Mahadevi Varma	Yama	Hindi
1989	Qurratulain Hyder	Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar	Urdu
1996	Mahasweta Devi	Hajar Churashir Maa	Bengali
2000	Indira Goswami		Assamese
2011	Pratibha Ray		Oriya

2017

Hindi

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List of Jnanpith Awardese in “TELUGU”

 

Viswanatha Satyanarayana

• Known as the Kavi Samraat

• Jnanpith Award in 1970 for  Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu

• Popular Works :    

Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu

Kinnersani patalu (Mermaid songs) and

Veyipadagalu (The Thousand Hoods).

Dr. Cingireddy Narayana Reddy

• Jnanpith Award in 1988 for his poetic work, “Viswambara”

• Known as Cinare.

• Kala Prapoorna by Andhra University in 1978

Rāvūri Bharadvāja

• Telugu novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic

• Jnanpith award for his novel Paakudu Raallu 2102

• Jeevana Samaram is another of his popular work

• Other works:

37 collections of short stories,

17 novels,

six short novels for children and

eight plays