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Jnanpith Award Winners

The Jnanpith Award recognises outstanding contribution to Indian literature across the languages of India. This page highlights recent awardees and points to Bharatiya Jnanpith’s official laureate list.

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Recent awardees

2025
R. Vairamuthu
Tamil
2024
Vinod Kumar Shukla
Hindi
2023
Gulzar
Urdu · Jagadguru Rambhadracharya
Sanskrit
2022
Damodar Mauzo
Konkani
2021
Nilmani Phookan
Assamese
2020
No award
2019
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
Malayalam
2018
Amitav Ghosh
English
2017
Krishna Sobti
Hindi
2016
Shankha Ghosh
Bangla

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