Jnanpith award
- September 25, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Arts and culture
Context:
Renowned Malayalam poet AkkithamAchuthanNamboothiri was conferred the Jnanpith award
Concept:
- Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the BharatiyaJnanpith to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”.
- Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English, with no posthumous conferral.