The Jnanpith Award , instituted in 22 May 1961. It is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian Citizen in any of the languages included in the VIIth Schedule of the constitution of India.It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of Indianewspaper
| Year | Award Winner | Language |
| 1965 | G.Sankara Kuruup | Malayalam |
| 1966 | Tara Shankar Banerjee | Bengali |
| 1967 | Dr.K.V.Puttappa | Kannada |
| 1967 | Umashankar Joshi | Gujarati |
| 1968 | Sumitranand Pant | Hindi |
| 1969 | Firaq Gorakhpuri
| Hindi |
| 1970 | Dr.Viswanatha Satynarayana | Telugu |
| 1971 | Bishnu Dey | Bengali |
| 1972 | Dr.Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Hindi |
| 1973 | Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre | Kannada |
| 1973 | Gopinath Mohanty | Oriya |
| 1974 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Marathi |
| 1975 | P.V.Akhilanadam (Akhilan) | Tamil |
| 1976 | Ashapurna Devi | Bengali |
| 1977 | Dr.K.Shivarama Karanth | Kannada |
| 1978 | S.H.Vatsyayan | Hindi |
| 1979 | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Assamese |
| 1980 | S.K.Pottakkatt | Malayalam |
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Panjabi |
| 1982 | Mahadevi Verma | Hindi |
| 1983 | Dr.Masti Venkatesh Iyengar | Kannada |
| 1984 | Thakazhi Shivashankara Pillai | Malayalam |
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati |
| 1986 | Satchidanand Rautroy | Oriya |
| 1987 | V.V.Shiwadkar | Marathi |
| 1988 | Dr.C.Narayana Reddy | Telugu |
| 1989 | Qurratul-ain-Haider | Urdu |
| 1990 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak | Kannada |
| 1991 | Subhas Mukhopadhyay | Bengali |
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi |
| 1993 | Sitahanth Mahapatra | Oriya |
| 1994 | U.R.Anantha Murthy | Kannada |
| 1995 | M.T.Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam |
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu |
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | Kannada |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |
| 1999 | Gurdayal Singh | Punjabi |
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese |
| 2001 | Rajendra Keshavlal Shah | Gujarati |
| 2002 | D.Jayakanthan | Tamil |
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi |
| 2004 | Rahman Rahi | Kashmiri |
| 2005 | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi |
| 2006 | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit |
| 2006 | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkini |
| 2007 | O.N.V.Kurup | Malayalam |
| 2008 | Akhlaq Mohammed Khab | Urdu |
| 2009 | Amar Kant and Shrilal Shukla | Hindi |
| 2010 | Chandresekhar Kambar | Kannada |
| 2011 | Prathibha Rai | Oriya |
| 2012 | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu |
| 2013 | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi |
| 2014 [50th] | Bhalchandra Nemade | Marathi |
| 2015 [51st] | Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati |
| 2016 [52nd] | Shankha Ghosh | Bengali |
| 2017 [53rd] | Krishna Sobti | Hindi |
| 2018 [54th] | Amitav Ghosh | English |
| 2019 [55th] | Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri | Malayalam |
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