Jnanpith Award

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Jnanpith Award is highest Indian literary award

Award carries Rs 11 lakh a bronze Vagdevi and citation

G Sankara Kurup first won Jnanpith in 1965 for Malayalam

Kannada has most Jnanpith winners among Indian languages

Amrita Pritam won Jnanpith for Punjabi in 1982

Mahadevi Varma won Jnanpith for Hindi poetry Yama

Award instituted in 1961 by Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust

Given for outstanding contribution to Indian literature

Only Indian citizens writing in scheduled languages eligible

VK Gokak won Jnanpith for Kannada in 1990

Damodar Mauzo won Jnanpith for Konkani in 2022

Raghuvir Chaudhary won Jnanpith for Gujarati in 2015

Gulzar received Jnanpith Award in 2023 for Urdu literature

MT Vasudevan Nair won Jnanpith for Malayalam in 1995

Sanskrit writers are eligible for Jnanpith Award since 2008