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    The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding...
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  • Moortidevi Award is an Indian literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organisation. The award is given only...
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    Kuvempu (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    of the 20th century. He was the first Kannada writer to receive the Jnanpith Award. Kuvempu studied at Mysuru University in the 1920s, taught there for...
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  • The award was founded in 1968 by poet G. Sankara Kurup to commemorate the Jnanpith Award he had won. "Ayyappa Panickar selected for Odakkuzhal award". The...
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    1962 by the Government of India. Jnanpith Award is the highest literary honour in literature of India Sahitya Akademi Award Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Saraswati...
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    Amrita Pritam (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    Sahitya Akademi Award, making her the first and the only woman to have been given the award for a work in Punjabi. She received the Jnanpith Award, one of India's...
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  • Festival. Jnanpith Award, India's most prestigious literary honour, was won by the following Malayalam authors. Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan Award was established...
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    Shivaram Karanth (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    since independence". He was the third writer to be decorated with the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honor conferred in India. His son...
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    India's highest literary awards, the Jnanpith Awards and the Moortidevi Award. Manipuri Sahitya Parishad Sahitya Akademi jnanpith.net Archived October 13...
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    O. N. V. Kurup (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    Kerala, India, who won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma...
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    second highest literary award of India, after Jnanpith Award. No awards were given in years, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1966. "Akademi Awards (1955-2015)". Sahitya...
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    Pratibha Ray (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    contribution to the Indian literature, Ray received the Jnanpith Award in 2011. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2022. She was born on 21 January 1944...
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  • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    language. He was the fourth among Kannada writers to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honor conferred in India. He was popularly referred...
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  • Ratna for sports, National Bravery Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Jnanpith Award for literature, "Maharishi Badrayan...
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    Awardees | Jnanpith Award". www.karnatakavision.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2018. "Jnanpith Award: Eight Kannada...
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  • Kusumagraj (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    1987 - Jnanpith Award  — a prestigious literary award in India, in recognition of his literary achievements 1988 - Sangeet Nātya Lekhan Award 1989 - President —...
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    national literary honour, the Jnanpith Award for his magnum opus Ramayana Kalpavrukshamu. C. Narayana Reddy won the Jnanpith Award in 1988 for his poetic work...
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  • recipient of Jnanpith Award Kannadasan (1927–1981), popularly called as Kavi Arasu; poet and film lyricist; winner of National Film Award for Best Lyrics...
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    Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    Maharashtra, India. He was the first Marathi author to win the prestigious Jnanpith Award. Khandekar was born on 11 January 1898 in Sangli, Maharashtra. His father...
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  • Ashapurna Devi (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. In 1976, she was awarded the Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri by the Government of India, D.Litt. by the Universities...
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    Chandrashekhara Kambara (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    with many prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan in 2021, Jnanpith Award in 2011 for the year 2010, Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padma Shri by Government...
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    Sachidananda Routray was the second Odia to win the Jnanpith Award, considered the highest literary award in India. His most famous work is the long poem...
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  • Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. He was nominated...
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    Mahasweta Devi (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    literary awards such as the Sahitya Akademi Award (in Bengali), Jnanpith Award and Ramon Magsaysay Award along with India's civilian awards Padma Shri...
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    Sitakant Mahapatra (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    was awarded the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia for his poetry collection, Sabdara Akasha (The Sky of Words). He was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 1993...
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  • Karnad, film director who received India's top literary prize, the Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri in 1974 and Padma Bhushan in 1992 G. V. Iyer, Indian film...
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    Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    third highest Indian civilian award. He was also a recipient of the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award, awarded in 1984 for the novel Kayar. Thakazhi...
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    C. Narayana Reddy (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    of Telugu University. Narayana Reddy won several awards in his career including the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, for Viswambhara...
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  • Agyeya (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    Hindi. Agyeya was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award (1964), Jnanpith Award (1978) and the internationally reputed Golden Wreath Award for poetry. Agyeya...
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  • poetry. Most of the awards have gone to novelists. Few poets have received these awards. The following poets have won the Jnanpith award for their poetry:...
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