Jnanpith Award Recipients
| Year | Name | Works | Language | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | G. Sankara Kurup | Odakkuzhal (Flute) | Malayalam | |
| 1966 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Ganadevta | Bengali | – |
| 1967 | Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) | Sri Ramayana Darshanam | Kannada | – |
| Umashankar Joshi | Nishitha | Gujarati | – | |
| 1968 | Sumitranandan Pant | Chidambara | Hindi | – |
| 1969 | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Gul-e-Naghma | Urdu | – |
| 1970 | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful tree:Ramayana) | Telugu | – |
| 1971 | Bishnu Dey | Smriti Satta Bhavishyat | Bengali | – |
| 1972 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Urvashi | Hindi | – |
| 1973 | Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre | Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings) | Kannada | – |
| Gopinath Mohanty | Matimatal | Oriya | – | |
| 1974 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Yayati | Marathi | |
| 1975 | P. V. Akilan | Chitttrappavai | Tamil | |
| 1976 | Ashapurna Devi | Pratham Pratisruti | Bengali | – |
| 1977 | K. Shivaram Karanth | Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (Mookajjis dreams) | Kannada | – |
| 1978 | Sachchidananda Vatsyayan | Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (How many times in how many boats?) | Hindi | – |
| 1979 | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Mrityunjay (Immortal) | Assamese | – |
| 1980 | S. K. Pottekkatt | Oru Desathinte Katha (Story of a land) | Malayalam | |
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Kagaj te Canvas | Punjabi | |
| 1982 | Mahadevi Varma | Yama | Hindi | |
| 1983 | Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra) | Kannada | – |
| 1984 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Kayar {Coir} | Malayalam | |
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Maanavi Ni Bhavaai | Gujarati | – |
| 1986 | Sachidananda Routray | Oriya | – | |
| 1987 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) | For his contributions to Marathi literature | Marathi | |
| 1988 | Dr. C. Narayana Reddy | Vishwambhara | Telugu | |
| 1989 | Qurratulain Hyder | Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar | Urdu | |
| 1990 | V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) | Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi | Kannada | – |
| 1991 | Subhas Mukhopadhyay | Padatik (The Foot Soldier) | Bengali | – |
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi | – | |
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | For outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973–92 | Oriya | |
| 1994 | U. R. Ananthamurthy | For his contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada | |
| 1995 | Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair | For his contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam | |
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Hajar Churashir Maa | Bengali | |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu | – | |
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | For his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati) | Kannada | |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi | ||
| Gurdial Singh | Ardh channee rathni| } | |||
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese | – | |
| 2001 | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati | – | |
| 2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil | ||
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | For his contributions to Marathi literature | Marathi | – |
| 2004 | Rehman Rahi | Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz | Kashmiri | – |
| 2005 | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi | – | |
| 2006 | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani | – | |
| Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit | |||
| 2007 | Dr. O. N. V. Kurup | For his contributions to Malayalam literature | Malayalam | |
| 2008 | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' | Urdu | – | |
| 2009 | Amar Kant | Hindi | – | |
| Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi | – | ||
| 2010 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | For his contributions to Kannada literature | Kannada | – |
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