TNPSC Thervupettagam
September 30 , 2020 1275 days 1101 0
  • The Jnanpith award announced in November last year was handed over to poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri. 
  • His work Balidarshanam won the State and Central Sahitya Akademi awards in 1972-73.

Jnanpith award

  • Jnanpith is the highest literary award in India, given annually for the best creative literary writing to writers in any of the 22 scheduled languages of the Constitution.
  • This Award was instituted in 1961.
  • The first Jnanpith was awarded to poet G Sankara Kurup in 1965.

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