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The Jnanpith award is given every year for the best creative writing by an Indian citizen in any of the languages included in Schedule VIII of the Indian Constitution. It is the most prestigious literary award of the country. The Award is sponsored by Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and cultural organisation set up in 1944, by the late Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and his wife Rama Jain; its present president is Ashok Kumar Jain. The Jnanpith Award was instituted on May 22, 1961. The first award was given in 1965. The award carries a cash price of Rs
7 lakhs, a citation and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of
knowledge, music, and arts.
Since its inception, 38
eminent writers have received the Jnanpith award in the following languages:
Assamese (2), Bengali (5), Gujarati (3), Hindi (7), Kannada (7), Kashmiri
(1), Konkani (1), Malayalam (5), Marathi (3), Oriya (3), Punjabi (2),
Sanskrit (1), Tamil (2), Telugu (2) and Urdu (4). On three occasions, the
Award was shared by two authors. The Award has so far been given seven
times each to Kannada and Hindi writers, five times each to Bengali and
Malayalam writers, four times to Urdu writers, three times each to Gujarati
and Marathi writers, two times each to Assamese, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu
writers and once to Assamese, Punjabi and Tamil writers and once each to
Kashmiri, Konkani and Sanskrit writers.
Eminent Malayalam litterateur
ONV Kurup and noted Urdu poet Akhlaq Khan Shahryar have been chosen for the
Jnanpith Award for the year 2007 and 2008 respectively for their contribution to
literature. The 2009 and 2010 Awards are yet to be announced.
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Tagore Literature Awards 2010
were presented to eight distinguished Indians by the First Lady of the
Republic of Korea The experts were awarded for their
contributions in eight Indian languages - namely Bangla, Bodo, Hindi,
Kannada, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Telugu and Gujarati. Twenty-four Indian
languages will be covered by the end of the third year. The awards have been
instituted by the Sahitya Akademi. Those felicitated with the award include
Alok Sarkar (Bangla), Naseem Shafai (Kashmiri), Bhagwandas Patel (Gujarati),
Jaswant Singh Kanwal (Punjabi), Brajendra Kr Brahma (Bodo), Kovela
Suprasannacharya (Telugu), Rajee Seth (Hindi) and Chandrasekhar Kambar
(Kannada). |
