Recently, Tamil lyricist and author R. Vairamuthu has been selected for the Jnanpith Award for the year 2025.
About Jnanpith Award:
It is the highest literary honour of India, given to writers who have excelled in literature in different Indian languages.
It was instituted in 1961.
Award: The prize carries a cash prize of Rs 11 lakh, a bronze statuette of Vagdevi (Goddess Saraswati), and a citation.
It is sponsored by the cultural organization Bharatiya Jnanpith.
Eligibility and Rules:
It is given every year to an author for his/her outstanding contribution towards Indian literature through creative writing in any of the Indian languages mentioned in Schedule VIII of the Indian Constitution and English.
Only those creative writers who are alive and are Indian citizens, can be proposed for the Award.
A language which receives the award in a particular year is not eligible for consideration for the next two years.
A writer who receives the Award once will not be considered again.
The Award may not be given in a particular year if the Jnanpith Award Selection Board feels that there is no suitable name which comes up to the expected standard of the Award.
The first recipient of the award was Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup, who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems Odakkuzhal.
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