Recipient Name
|
Language
|
Year
|
| G. Sankara Kurup |
Malayalam |
1965 |
| Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay |
Bengali |
1966 |
| Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa |
Kannada |
1967 |
| Umashankar Joshi |
Gujarati |
1967 |
| Sumitranandan Pant |
Hindi |
1968 |
| Firaq Gorakhpuri |
Urdu |
1969 |
| Viswanatha Satyanarayana |
Telugu |
1970 |
| Bishnu Dey |
Bengali |
1971 |
| Ramdhari Singh Dinkar |
Hindi |
1972 |
| Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre |
Kannada |
1973 |
| Gopinath Mohanty |
Oriya |
1973 |
| Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar |
Marathi |
1974 |
| P. V. Akilan |
Tamil |
1975 |
| Ashapurna Devi |
Bengali |
1976 |
| K. Shivaram Karanth |
Kannada |
1977 |
| Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ |
Hindi |
1978 |
| Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya |
Assamese |
1979 |
| S. K. Pottekkatt |
Malayalam |
1980 |
| Amrita Pritam |
Punjabi |
1981 |
| Mahadevi Varma |
Hindi |
1982 |
| Masti Venkatesha Iyengar |
Kannada |
1983 |
| Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
Malayalam |
1984 |
| Pannalal Patel |
Gujarati |
1985 |
| Sachidananda Routray |
Oriya |
1986 |
| Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar |
Marathi |
1987 |
| Dr C. Narayana Reddy |
Telugu |
1988 |
| Qurratulain Hyder |
Urdu |
1989 |
| Vinayaka Krishna Gokak |
Kannada |
1990 |
| Subhash Mukhopadhyay |
Bengali |
1991 |
| Naresh Mehta |
Hindi |
1992 |
| Sitakant Mahapatra |
Oriya |
1993 |
| U. R. Ananthamurthy |
Kannada |
1994 |
| Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair |
Malayalam |
1995 |
| Mahasweta Devi |
Bengali |
1996 |
| Ali Sardar Jafri |
Urdu |
1997 |
| Girish Karnad |
Kannada |
1998 |
| Gurdial Singh |
Punjabi |
1999 |
| Nirmal Verma |
Hindi |
1999 |
| Indira Goswami |
Assamese |
2000 |
| Rajendra Keshavlal Shah |
Gujarati |
2001 |
| D. Jayakanthan |
Tamil |
2002 |
| Vinda Karandikar |
Marathi |
2003 |
| Rehman Rahi |
Kashmiri |
2004 |
| Kunwar Narayan |
Hindi |
2005 |
| Ravindra Kelekar |
Konkani |
2006 |
| Satya Vrat Shastri |
Sanskrit |
2006 |
| Dr. O. N. V. Kurup |
Malayalam |
2007 |
| Akhlaq Mohammed Khan |
Urdu |
2008 |
| Amar Kant |
Hindi |
2009 |
| Shrilal Shukla |
Hindi |
2009 |
| Chandrashekhara Kambara |
Kannada |
2010 |
| Pratibha Ray |
Oriya |
2011 |
| Ravuri Bharadwaja |
Telugu |
2012 |
| Kedarnath Singh |
Hindi |
2013 |
| Bhalchandra Nemade |
Marathi |
2014 |
| Dr. Raghuvir Chaudhari |
Gujarati |
2015 |
| Shankha Ghosh |
Bengali |
2016 |
| Krishna Sobti |
Hindi |
2017 |
| Amitav Ghosh |
English |
2018 |
| Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri |
Malayalam |
2019 |
| Nilamani Phookan |
Assamese |
2021 |
| Damodar Mauzo |
Konkani |
2022 |