1. | First Person to win the award | G. Sankara Kurup | 1965 |
2. | First woman to win the award | Ashapurna Devi | 1976 |
# | Language | Author | Year |
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1. | Malayalam | G. Sankara Kurup | 1965 |
2. | Bengali | Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay | 1966 |
3. | Gujarati | Umashankar Joshi | 1967 |
4. | Kannada | K. Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu) | 1967 |
5. | Hindi | Sumitranandan Pant | 1968 |
6. | Urdu | Firaq Gorakhpuri | 1969 |
7. | Telugu | Vishwanatha Satyanarayana | 1970 |
8. | Odia | Gopinath Mohanty | 1973 |
9. | Marathi | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | 1974 |
10. | Tamil | Akilan | 1975 |
11. | Assamese | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | 1979 |
12. | Punjabi | Amrita Pritam | 1981 |
13. | Kashmiri | Rehman Rahi | 2004 |
14. | Konkani | Ravindra Kelekar | 2006 |
15. | Sanskrit | Satya Vrat Shastri | 2006 |
16. | English | Amitav Ghosh | 2018 |