{"id":358346,"date":"2026-03-17T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=358346"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:23:02","slug":"jnanpith-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jnanpith-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jnanpith Award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> The Tamil poet and lyricist Vairamuthu has been chosen for the India\u2019s highest literary honour Jnanpith Award 2025.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Jnanpith Award 2025<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prabhatkhabar.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwpmedia.prabhatkhabar.com%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F03%2FJnanpith-Award-2025.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Jnanpith Award 2025\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Prabhat Khabar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jnanpith Award is India\u2019s highest literary honour <strong>presented to Indian authors for their outstanding contributions to literature.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sponsored by:<\/strong> It is sponsored by the<strong>\u00a0Bharatiya Jnanpith.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Instituted:<\/strong> It was instituted in <strong>1961<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is conferred <strong>annually<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> It recognises exceptional literary achievements in<strong> Indian languages <\/strong>listed in the <strong>Eighth Schedule of the Constitution <\/strong>and in<strong> English.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Eligibility:<\/strong> <strong>Only living Indian citizens engaged in creative writing are eligible<\/strong> to be nominated for the award.\n<ul>\n<li>A<strong> language that has been awarded in a given year is excluded from consideration for the following two years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>An <strong>author who has received the award once is not eligible for it again.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Award <strong>may not be given in a particular year<\/strong> if the selection board finds that no candidate meets the required standard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Prize:<\/strong> The award includes a <strong>cash prize of \u20b911 lakh,<\/strong> a <strong>bronze statuette of Goddess Saraswati, and a citation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>First Recipient:<\/strong> The first recipient was <strong>Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup, who was honored in 1965 for his poetry collection Odakkuzhal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jnanpith Award<\/span><\/span> 2025:<\/strong> The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jnanpith Award<\/span><\/span> 2025 has been awarded to <strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Vairamuthu<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is a <strong>renowned Tamil poet and lyricist <\/strong>with <strong>over four decades of contribution to literature and cinema.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vairamuthu is the <strong data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"408\">third Tamil writer<\/strong> to receive the award after <strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Akilan<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jayakanthan<\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is the <strong data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"579\">first to be honoured mainly for Tamil poetry<\/strong> rather than prose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Tamil poet and lyricist Vairamuthu has been chosen for the India\u2019s highest literary honour Jnanpith Award 2025. About Jnanpith Award 2025 The Jnanpith Award is India\u2019s highest literary honour presented to Indian authors for their outstanding contributions to literature. Sponsored by: It is sponsored by the\u00a0Bharatiya Jnanpith. Instituted: It was instituted in 1961.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jnanpith-award-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jnanpith Award 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-358346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}