# Every Hindi writer who has won the Jnanpith Award

The Jnanpith Award is India's oldest and highest literary honour. From Sumitranandan Pant in 1968 to Vinod Kumar Shukla for 2024, twelve Hindi writers have received it, more than in any other Indian language. The full list in chronological order.

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- Oct 4, 2025 · deepika_nomad
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## Top 12

1. **Sumitranandan Pant** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 1968, for the poetry collection Chidambara.
2. **Naresh Mehta** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 1992, for lifetime contribution.
3. **Sachchidananda Vatsyayan "Agyeya"** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 1978, for the poetry collection Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar.
4. **Shrilal Shukla** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Jnanpith Award 2009, for lifetime contribution; author of Raag Darbari.
5. **Kunwar Narayan** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 2005, for lifetime contribution.
6. **Kedarnath Singh** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 2013, for lifetime contribution.
7. **Ramdhari Singh "Dinkar"** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Jnanpith Award 1972, for the poem Urvashi.
8. **Nirmal Verma** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 1999, for lifetime contribution (shared with Gurdial Singh).
9. **Krishna Sobti** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 2017, for lifetime contribution.
10. **Mahadevi Varma** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 1982, for the poetry collection Yama.
11. **Vinod Kumar Shukla** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jnanpith Award 2024, for lifetime contribution; the 59th Jnanpith Award.
12. **Amarkant** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Jnanpith Award 2009, for lifetime contribution (shared with Shrilal Shukla).

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