JNANPITH LAUREATES

1. G. Sankara Kurup (1965) Malayalam
2. T.S. Bandyopadhyaya (1966) Bangla
3. Uma Shankar Joshi (1967) Gujarati
4. K.V. Puttappa (1967) Kannada
5. Sumitranandan Pant (1968) Hindi
6. Firaq Gorakhpuri (1969) Urdu
7. V. Satyanarayana (1970) Telugu
8. Bishnu Dey (1971) Bangla
9. Ramdhari Singh `Dinkar' (1972) Hindi
10. D.R. Bendre (1973) Kannada,
11. Gopinath Mohanty (1973) Oriya
12. V.S. Khandekar (1974) Marathi
13. P.V. Akilandam (1975) Tamil
14. Ashapurna Devi (1976) Bangla
15. K.S. Karanth (1977) Kannada
16. S.H.V. Ajneya (1978) Hindi
17. B.K. Bhattacharya (1979) Assamese
18. S.K. Pottekkatt (1980) Malayalam,
19. Amrita Pritam (1981) Punjabi
20. Mahadevi Varma (1982) Hindi
21. Masti V. Iyengar (1983) Kannada
22. Thakazhi S. Pillai (1984) Malayalam
23. Pannalal Patel (1985) Gujarati
24. Satchidanand Rautroy (1986) Oriya
25. V.V.S. 'Kusumagraj' (1987) Marathi
26. C. Narayana Reddy (1988) Telugu
27. Qurratulain Hyder (1989) Urdu
28. V.K. Gokak (1990) Kannada
29. Subhash Mukhopadhyaya (1991) Bangla
30. Naresh Mehta (1992) Hindi
31. Sitakant Mahapatra (1993) Oriya
32. U.R. Anantha Murthy (1994) Kannada
33. M.T. Vasudevan Nair (1995) Malayalam
34. Mahasveta Devi (1996) Bangla
35. Ali Sardar Jafri (1997) Urdu
36. Girish Karnad (1998) Kannada
37. Nirmal Verma (1999) Hindi
38. Gurdial Singh (1999) Punjabi
39. Indira Goswami (2000) Assamese
40. Rajendra Shah (2001) Gujarati
41. D. Jayakanthan (2002) Tamil
42. Vinda Karandikar (2003) Marathi
43. Rahman Rahi (2004) Kashmiri
44. Kunwar Narain (2005) Hindi
45. Satyavrat Shastri (2006) Sanskrit
46. Ravindra Kelekar (2006) Konkani
47. O. N. V. Kurup (2007) Malayalam
48. Akhlaq Khan Shahryar (2008) Urdu

49. Shrilal Shukla (2009) Hindi

50. Amarkant (2009) Hindi

51. Chandrasekhar Kambar (2010) Kannada

52.Pratibha Ray(2011) oriya