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 |