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Private Jnanpith Awardees Of India

G.Shankara Kurup for his poems Odakkuzhal in Malayalam (1965)
Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya for the novel Ganadevta in Bengali (1966)
Dr K.V Puttappa for Sri Ramayana Darshanam in Kannada (1967)
Uma Shankar Joshi for Nishitha in Gujarati (1967)
Sumitra Nandan Pant for Chidambara in Hindi (1968 )
Firaq Gorakpuri for Gul-e-Naghma in Urdu (1969)
Vishwanath Satyanarayan for Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu in Telugu (1970)
Bishnu Dey for Smriti Satta Bhavishyat in Bengali (1971)
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar for Urvashi in Hindi (1972)
Dattatreya Ramachandran Bendre for Nakutanti in Kannada (1973)
Gopinath Mohanty for Mattimatal in Oriya (1973)
Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar for Yayati in Marathi (1974)
P.V Akilandam for his novel Chittirappavai in Tamil (1975)
Asha Purna Devi for Pratham Pratisruti, in Bengali (1976)
K.Shivaram Karanth for Mukajjiya Kanasugalu in Kannada (1977)
S.H.V.Ajneya for his novel Kitni Navon men Kitni Bar in Hindi (1978)
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya for his novel Mrityunjay in Assamese (1979)
S.K Pottekkatt for his novel Oru Desattinte Katha in Malayalam (1980)
Amrita Pritam for her literary collection Kagaz te Canvas in Punjabi (1981)
Mahadevi Varma (Hindi) (1982)
Masti Venkatesh Ayengar (Kannada) (1983)
Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai (Malayalam) (1984)
Pannalal Patel (Gujarati) (1985)
Sachidanand Rout Roy (Oriya) (1986)
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj (Marathi) (1987)
Dr C Narayanan Reddy (Telugu) (1988)
Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu) (1989)
V.K Gokak (Kannada) (1990)
Subhash Mukhopadhyay (Bengali) (1991)
Naresh Mehta (Hindi) (1992)
Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya) (1993)
UR Anantha Murthy (Kannada) (1994)
M.T.Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam) (1995)
Mahesweta Devi (Bengali) (1996)
Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu) (1997)
Girish Karnad (Kannada) (1998)
Nirmal Verma (Hindi) and Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)-1999.
G.Shankara Kurup for his poems Odakkuzhal in Malayalam (1965)
Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya for the novel Ganadevta in Bengali (1966)
Dr K.V Puttappa for Sri Ramayana Darshanam in Kannada (1967)
Uma Shankar Joshi for Nishitha in Gujarati (1967)
Sumitra Nandan Pant for Chidambara in Hindi (1968 )
Firaq Gorakpuri for Gul-e-Naghma in Urdu (1969)
Vishwanath Satyanarayan for Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu in Telugu (1970)
Bishnu Dey for Smriti Satta Bhavishyat in Bengali (1971)
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar for Urvashi in Hindi (1972)
Dattatreya Ramachandran Bendre for Nakutanti in Kannada (1973)
Gopinath Mohanty for Mattimatal in Oriya (1973)
Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar for Yayati in Marathi (1974)
P.V Akilandam for his novel Chittirappavai in Tamil (1975)
Asha Purna Devi for Pratham Pratisruti, in Bengali (1976)
K.Shivaram Karanth for Mukajjiya Kanasugalu in Kannada (1977)
S.H.V.Ajneya for his novel Kitni Navon men Kitni Bar in Hindi (1978)
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya for his novel Mrityunjay in Assamese (1979)
S.K Pottekkatt for his novel Oru Desattinte Katha in Malayalam (1980)
Amrita Pritam for her literary collection Kagaz te Canvas in Punjabi (1981)
Mahadevi Varma (Hindi) (1982)
Masti Venkatesh Ayengar (Kannada) (1983)
Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai (Malayalam) (1984)
Pannalal Patel (Gujarati) (1985)
Sachidanand Rout Roy (Oriya) (1986)
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj (Marathi) (1987)
Dr C Narayanan Reddy (Telugu) (1988)
Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu) (1989)
V.K Gokak (Kannada) (1990)
Subhash Mukhopadhyay (Bengali) (1991)
Naresh Mehta (Hindi) (1992)
Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya) (1993)
UR Anantha Murthy (Kannada) (1994)
M.T.Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam) (1995)
Mahesweta Devi (Bengali) (1996)
Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu) (1997)
Girish Karnad (Kannada) (1998)
Nirmal Verma (Hindi) and Gurdial Singh (Punjabi)-1999.