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News: The Tamil poet and lyricist Vairamuthu has been chosen for the India’s highest literary honour Jnanpith Award 2025.
About Jnanpith Award 2025
- The Jnanpith Award is India’s highest literary honour presented to Indian authors for their outstanding contributions to literature.
- Sponsored by: It is sponsored by the Bharatiya Jnanpith.
- Instituted: It was instituted in 1961.
- It is conferred annually.
- Objective: It recognises exceptional literary achievements in Indian languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution and in English.
- Eligibility: Only living Indian citizens engaged in creative writing are eligible to be nominated for the award.
- A language that has been awarded in a given year is excluded from consideration for the following two years.
- An author who has received the award once is not eligible for it again.
- The Award may not be given in a particular year if the selection board finds that no candidate meets the required standard.
- Prize: The award includes a cash prize of ₹11 lakh, a bronze statuette of Goddess Saraswati, and a citation.
- First Recipient: The first recipient was Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup, who was honored in 1965 for his poetry collection Odakkuzhal.
- Jnanpith Award 2025: The Jnanpith Award 2025 has been awarded to Vairamuthu.
- He is a renowned Tamil poet and lyricist with over four decades of contribution to literature and cinema.
- Vairamuthu is the third Tamil writer to receive the award after Akilan and Jayakanthan.
- He is the first to be honoured mainly for Tamil poetry rather than prose.
