1. 1965 - G. Sankara Kurup (malajalam)
2. 1966 – Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (bengalski)
3. 1967 - Umashankar Joshi (gudżarati)
4. 1967 - K. V. Puttappa (kannada)
5. 1968 - Spodnie Sumitranandan (hindi)
6. 1969 - Firaq Gorakhpuri (urdu)
7. 1970 – Wiśwanatha Satyanarayana (telugu)
8. 1971 - Bishnu Dey (Asamczyk)
9. 1972 – Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (hindi)
10. 1973 - D. R. Bendre (kannada)
11. 1973 - Gopinath Mohanty (Odia)
12. 1974 - Wisznu Vaman Shirwadkar (Marathi)
13. 1975 - P. V. Akilandam (tamilski)
14. 1976 – Ashapoorna Devi (bengalski)
15. 1977 - K. S. Narasimhaswamy (kannada)
16. 1978 - S. H. Vatsyayan „Agyeya” (hindi)
17. 1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (Asamczyk)
18. 1980 - S. K. Pottekkatt (malajalam)
19. 1981 - Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)
20. 1982 - Sitakant Mahapatra (Odia)
21. 1983 – Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (kannada)
22. 1984 – Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (malajalam)
23. 1985 - Phanishwarnath „Renu” (hindi)
24. 1986 – Sachidananda Routray (Odia)
25. 1987 - Wisznu Sakharam Khandekar (Marathi)
26. 1988 - C. Narayana Reddy (telugu)
27. 1989 - Qurratulain Hyder (urdu)
28. 1990 – Vinda Karandikar (marathi)
29. 1991 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (bengalski)
30. 1992 - Nirmal Verma (hindi)
31. 1993 - Girish Karnad (kannada)
32. 1994 - U. R. Ananthamurthy (kannada)
33. 1995 - M. T. Vasudevan Nair (malajalam)
34. 1996 – Mahasweta Devi (bengalski)
35. 1997 – Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan „Agyeya” (hindi)
36. 1998 – Girish Chandra Sen (bengalski)
37. 1999 - Nissim Ezekiel (angielski)
38. 2000 - Indira Goswami (Asamka)
39. 2001 - O. N. V. Kurup (malajalam)
40. 2002 – Govind Chandra Pandey (hindi)
41. 2003 – Deepa Mehta (hindi)
42. 2004 - K. J. Yesudas (malajalam)
43. 2005 – Kunwar Narain (hindi)
44. 2006 – Ravindra Kelekar (marathi)
45. 2007 - O.P. Bhatnagar (hindi)
46. 2008 - Akhil Katha (hindi)
47. 2009 - Pratibha Ray (Odia)
48. 2010 - Chandrashekhara Kambar (kannada)
49. 2011 - Pratibha Ray (Odia)
50. 2012 - Ravindra Kelekar (marathi)
51. 2013 – Kedarnath Singh (hindi)
52. 2014 - Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi)
53. 2015 – Raghunath Chaudhari (Odia)
54. 2016 – Shankha Ghosh (bengalski)
55. 2017 – Kryszna Sobti (hindi)
56. 2018 - Amit Chaudhuri (angielski)
57. 2019 – Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (malajalam)
58. 2020 - Chiranjit (bengalski)
59. 2021 - Damodar Mauzo (Konkani)
60. 2022 - Amitav Ghosh (angielski)