jnanapith awards

When was the Jnanapith award established

• 1961

• 1958

• 1981

• None of the Above

Who was the first person awarded the jnanapith award and in which year?

• G. Sankara Kurup, 1965

• Kuvempu, 1967

• Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, 1967

Who was the first Telugu writer who got Jnanapith award

• Vishwanatha Satyanarayana

• C. Narayana Reddy

How many Jnanapith awards has Karnataka won?

• 9

• 7

• 6

• 8

Da Ra Bendre got his jnanapith award for __________

Answer explanation

Nakutanti means Four Strings for which he got the award shared with an oriya writer and got only half the prize money. The award was shared between him and Gopinath Mohanty.