First Jnanpith Award Winners from Different Languages

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The Jnanpith Award is conferred by Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organization founded in 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and his wife Rama Jain. The award was instituted in 1961 but first awarded in 1965. The award consists of a citation plaque, a cash prize and a bronze replica of Saraswati. The award is open only for Indian citizens.


First Person and First Woman Winner

  1. The First Person to be conferred the Jnanpith Award was G. Sankara Kurup. He was a noted Malayalam writer and he was awarded in 1965. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963 and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1967.
  2. The First woman to be awarded the Jnanpith Award was Bengali writer Smt. Ashapurna Devi who was awarded in 1976. Besides the Jnanpith, she was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1994.

Language-wise First Winners

#LanguageAuthorYear
1.MalayalamG. Sankara Kurup1965
2.BengaliTarashankar Bandyopadhyay1966
3.GujaratiUmashankar Joshi1967
4.KannadaK. Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu)1967
5.HindiSumitranandan Pant1968
6.UrduFiraq Gorakhpuri1969
7.TeluguVishwanatha Satyanarayana1970
8.OdiaGopinath Mohanty1973
9.MarathiVishnu Sakharam Khandekar1974
10.TamilAkilan1975
11.AssameseBirendra Kumar Bhattacharya1979
12.PunjabiAmrita Pritam1981
13.KashmiriRehman Rahi2004
14.KonkaniRavindra Kelekar2006
15.SanskritSatya Vrat Shastri2006
16.EnglishAmitav Ghosh2018


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1. Smt Ashapurna Devi, the 1st woman to win the Jnanpith Award wrote in which language?

2. The Jnanpith Award has a bronze replica of which God/Goddess?

3. In which year was the award first given?

4. The first Hindi writer to be conferred the award was -

5. Amrita Pritam was awarded the Jnanpith for her writings in -

6. Who was the first English author to be conferred the award?

7. Firaq Gorakhpuri was awarded the Jnanpith for his writings in -