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Jnanpith Award, (also spelled Gyanpeeth Award), is India’s highest literary honor, instituted in 1961 by the Bharatiya Jnanpith.
Bharatiya Jnanpith is a literary and research organization founded by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain and Smt. Rama Jain.
It is awarded annually to an Indian author for their outstanding contribution to literature. It is not given posthumously.
It is awarded for the work in 22 languages recognized by the Constitution of India and, from 2013, in the English language.
Once a language receives the award, it becomes ineligible for the next 3 years.
Awardees receive a cash prize of Rs 11 lakh, a statue of Vagdevi (Saraswati), and a citation, honouring their literary achievements.
The award was established in 1961 and first awarded in 1965.
The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute).
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