|
S.No |
Year |
Recipient Name |
Recieved Language |
|
1 |
2019 |
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri |
Malayalam |
|
2 |
2018 |
Amitav Ghosh |
English |
|
3 |
2017 |
Krishna Sobti |
Hindi |
|
4 |
2016 |
Shankha Ghosh |
Bengali |
|
5 |
2015 |
Raghuveer Chaudhari |
Gujarati |
|
6 |
2014 |
Bhalchandra Nemade |
Marathi |
|
7 |
2013 |
Kedarnath Singh |
Hindi |
|
8 |
2012 |
Ravuri Bharadhwaja |
Telugu |
|
9 |
2011 |
Pratibha Ray |
Odia |
|
10 |
2010 |
Chandrashekhara Kambara |
Kannada |
|
11 |
2009 |
Sri Lal Sukla |
Hindi |
|
12 |
2009 |
Amarkant |
Hindi |
|
13 |
2008 |
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' |
Urdu |
|
14 |
2007 |
O. N. V. Kurup |
Malayalam |
|
15 |
2006 |
Satya Vrat Shastri |
Sanskrit |
|
16 |
2006 |
Ravindra Kelekar |
Konkani |
|
17 |
2005 |
Kunwar Narayan |
Hindi |
|
18 |
2004 |
Rehman Rahi |
Kashmiri |
|
19 |
2003 |
Vinda Karandikar |
Marathi |
|
20 |
2002 |
Jayakanthan |
Tamil |
|
21 |
2001 |
Rajendra Shah |
Gujarati |
|
22 |
2000 |
Mamoni Raisom Goswami |
Assamese |
|
23 |
1999 |
Gurdial Singh |
Punjabi |
|
24 |
1999 |
Nirmal Verma |
Hindi |
|
25 |
1998 |
Girish Karnad |
Kannada |
|
26 |
1997 |
Ali Sardar Jafri |
Urdu |
|
27 |
1996 |
Mahasweta Devi |
Bengali |
|
28 |
1995 |
M. T. Vasudevan Nair |
Malayalam |
|
29 |
1994 |
U. R. Ananthamurthy |
Kannada |
|
30 |
1993 |
Sitakant Mahapatra |
Odia |
|
31 |
1992 |
Naresh Mehta |
Hindi |
|
32 |
1991 |
Subhash Mukhopadhyay |
Bengali |
|
33 |
1990 |
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak |
Kannada |
|
34 |
1989 |
Qurratulain Hyder |
Urdu |
|
35 |
1988 |
C. Narayana Reddy |
Telugu |
|
36 |
1987 |
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj' |
Marathi |
|
37 |
1986 |
Sachidananda Routray |
Odia |
|
38 |
1985 |
Pannalal Patel |
Gujarati |
|
39 |
1984 |
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
Malayalam |
|
40 |
1983 |
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar |
Kannada |
|
41 |
1982 |
Mahadevi Varma |
Hindi |
|
42 |
1981 |
Amrita Pritam |
Punjabi |
|
43 |
1980 |
S. K. Pottekkatt |
Malayalam |
|
44 |
1979 |
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya |
Assamese |
|
45 |
1978 |
Sachchidananda Vatsyayan |
Hindi |
|
46 |
1977 |
K. Shivaram Karanth |
Kannada |
|
47 |
1976 |
Ashapoorna Devi |
Bengali |
|
48 |
1975 |
Akilan |
Tamil |
|
49 |
1974 |
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar |
Marathi |
|
50 |
1973 |
Gopinath Mohanty |
Odia |
|
51 |
1973 |
D. R. Bendre |
Kannada |
|
52 |
1972 |
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' |
Hindi |
|
53 |
1971 |
Bishnu Dey |
Bengali |
|
54 |
1970 |
Viswanatha Satyanarayana |
Telugu |
|
55 |
1969 |
Firaq Gorakhpuri |
Urdu |
|
56 |
1968 |
Sumitranandan Pant |
Hindi |
|
57 |
1967 |
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' |
Kannada |
|
58 |
1967 |
Umashankar Joshi |
Gujarati |
|
59 |
1966 |
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay |
Bengali |
|
60 |
1965 |
G. Sankara Kurup |
Malayalam |