title: Premio Jnanpith
text: # Premio Jnanpith
  
  Il Premio Jnanpith è un riconoscimento letterario indiano attribuito ad autori di lingua indiana per il loro contributo eccezionale alla letteratura.
  
  Istituito nel 1961 dalla famiglia Sahu Jain proprietaria del Times Group, è considerato il più importante premio letterario indiano.
  
  Amministrato e organizzato dall'organizzazione letteraria e di ricerca "Bharatiya Jnanpith", è destinato a tutti gli autori che scrivono nelle 22 lingue ufficiali come sancito dall'Ottavo programma alla Costituzione dell'India.
  
  ## Albo d'oro
  
  * Anno: Nome - Opera - Lingua
  * 1965: G. Sankara Kurup – Odakkuzhal – Malayalam
  * 1966: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay – Ganadevta – Bengalese
  * 1967: Kuvempu – Sri Ramayana Darshanam – Kannada
  * 1967: Umashankar Joshi – Nishitha – Gujarati
  * 1968: Sumitranandan Pant – Chidambara – Hindi
  * 1969: Firaq Gorakhpuri – Gul-e-Naghma – Urdu
  * 1970: Viswanatha Satyanarayana – Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu – Telugu
  * 1971: Bishnu De – Smriti Satta Bhavishyat – Bengalese
  * 1972: Ramdhari Singh Dinkar – Urvashi – Hindi
  * 1973: Dattatreya Ramachandaran Bendre – Nakutanti – Kannada
  * 1973: Gopinath Mohanty – Mattimatal – Oriya
  * 1974: Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar – Yayati – Marathi
  * 1975: P. V. Akilandam – Chitttrappavai – Tamil
  * 1976: Asha Purna Devi – Pratham Pratisruti – Bengalese
  * 1977: K. Shivaram Karanth – Mukkajjiya Kanasugalu – Kannada
  * 1978: S. H. V. Ajneya – Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar – Hindi
  * 1979: Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya – Mrityunjay – Assamese
  * 1980: S. K. Pottekkatt – Oru Desattinte Katha – Malayalam
  * 1981: Amrita Pritam – Kagaj te Canvas – Panjabi
  * 1982: Mahadevi Varma – Hindi
  * 1983: Masti Venkatesh Ayengar – Kannada
  * 1984: T. Sivasankara Pillai – Malayalam
  * 1985: Pannalal Patel – Gujarati
  * 1986: Sachidanand Rout Roy – Oriya
  * 1987: Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj – Marathi
  * 1988: C. Narayana Reddy – Telugu
  * 1989: Qurratulain Hyder – Urdu
  * 1990: V. K. Gokak – Kannada
  * 1991: Subash Mukhopadhyay – Bengalese
  * 1992: Naresh Mehta – Hindi
  * 1993: Sitakant Mahapatra – Oriya
  * 1994: U. R. Ananthamurthy – Kannada
  * 1995: M. T. Vasudevan Nair – Malayalam
  * 1996: Mahasweta Devi – Bengalese
  * 1997: Ali Sardar Jafri – Urdu
  * 1998: Girish Karnad – Kannada
  * 1999: Nirmal Verma – Hindi
  * 1999: Gurdial Singh – Panjabi
  * 2000: Indira Goswami – Assamese
  * 2001: Rajendra Keshavlal Shah – Gujarati
  * 2002: Jayakanthan – Tamil
  * 2003: Vinda Karandikar – Marathi
  * 2004: Rahman Rahi – Kashmiri
  * 2005: Kunwar Narayan – Hindi
  * 2006: Ravindra Kelekar – Konkani
  * 2006: Satya Vrat Shastri – Sanscrito
  * 2007: O. N. V. Kurup – Malayalam
  * 2008: Akhlaq Mohammed Khan – Urdu
  * 2009: Amar Kant e Shrilal Shukla – Hindi
  * 2010: Chandrashekhara Kambar – Kannada
  * 2011: Pratibha Ray – Oriya
  * 2012: Ravuri Bharadhwaja – Telugu
  * 2013: Kedarnath Singh – Hindi
  * 2014: Bhalchandra Nemade – Marathi
  * 2015: Raghuveer Chaudhari – Gujarati
  * 2016: Shankha Ghosh – Bengalese
  * 2017: Krishna Sobti – Hindi
  * 2018: Amitav Ghosh – Inglese
  * 2019: Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri - Malayalam
  * 2020: Nilmani Phookan Jr – Assamese
  * 2021: Damodar Mauzo - Konkani
  