Moortidevi Award
This Award carries the memory of Moortidevi, mother of Late Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, founder of Bharatiya Jnanpith. This Award is presented for a contemplative or intellectual work, which underlines and expresses Indian philosophy and cultural heritage based on wider ideals and human values. It is conferred on the litterateur who is alive.
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari presented the "26th Moorti Devi Award" to Shri Haraprasad Das, one of the most influential contemporary poet and thinker in Odia Literature at a function organized by Bharatiya Jnanpith on 4th February 2014. The award consists of a Citation and a cash prize of Rs 4 Lakhs. |
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Year Laureate Language
1983 C.K.Nagaraja RaoKannada 1984 Virendra Kumar Jain Hindi 1985 Manubhai Pancholi ‘Darshak' Gujarati 1986 Kanhyaiya Lal Sethia Rajasthani 1988 Vishnu Prabhakar Hindi 1989 Vidya Niwas Mishra Hindi 1990 Munishree Nagraj Hindi 1991 Pratibha Rai Oriya 1992 Kubernath Ray Hindi 1993 Shyamacharan Dubey Hindi 1994 Shivaji Sawant Marathi 1995 Nirmal Verma Hindi 2000 Govind Chandra Pande[2] Hindi 2001 Rammurti Tripathi[2] Hindi 2002 Yashdev Shalya Hindi 2003 Kalyan Mal Lodha Hindi 2004 Narayan Desai Gujarati 2005 Rammurti Sharma Hindi 2006 Krishna Bihari Mishra Hindi 2007 M. Veerappa Moily[3] Kannada 2008 Raghuvansh[4] Hindi 2009 Akkitham Malayalam 2010 Gopi Chand Narang Urdu 2011 Gulab Kothari[5] Hindi 2012 Haraprasad Das[6] Oriya 2013 C. Radhakrishnan Malayalam |
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