1.1965 - G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam)
2.1966 - Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (bengalese)
3. 1967 – Umashankar Joshi (Gujarati)
4. 1967 - KV Puttappa (Kannada)
5. 1968 - Sumitranandan Pant (hindi)
6. 1969 - Firaq Gorakhpuri (urdu)
7.1970 - Viswanatha Satyanarayana (Telugu)
8.1971 – Bishnu Dey (Assamese)
9.1972 – Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (hindi)
10.1973 - DR Bendre (Kannada)
11.1973 - Gopinath Mohanty (Odia)
12.1974 – Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Marathi)
13.1975 - PV Akilandam (Tamil)
14.1976 - Ashapoorna Devi (bengalese)
15.1977 - KS Narasimhaswamy (Kannada)
16.1978 - S. H. Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' (hindi)
17.1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (Assamese)
18.1980 - SK Pottekkatt (Malayalam)
19.1981 - Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)
20.1982 - Sitakant Mahapatra (Odia)
21.1983 - Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (Kannada)
22.1984 - Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam)
23.1985 - Phanishwarnath 'Renu' (hindi)
24.1986 - Sachidananda Routray (Odia)
25.1987 – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Marathi)
26.1988 - C. Narayana Reddy (Telugu)
27.1989 - Qurratulain Hyder (Urdu)
28.1990 – Vinda Karandikar (Marathi)
29.1991 - Subhash Mukhopadhyay (bengalese)
30.1992 - Nirmal Verma (hindi)
31.1993 - Girish Karnad (Kannada)
32.1994 - UR Ananthamurthy (Kannada)
33.1995 - MT Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam)
34.1996 – Mahasweta Devi (bengalese)
35.1997 - Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' (hindi)
36.1998 - Girish Chandra Sen (bengalese)
37.1999 - Nissim Ezekiel (inglese)
38.2000 – Indira Goswami (Assamese)
39.2001 - ONV Kurup (Malayalam)
40.2002 – Govind Chandra Pandey (hindi)
41.2003 – Deepa Mehta (hindi)
42.2004 - KJ Yesudas (Malayalam)
43.2005 – Kunwar Narain (hindi)
44.2006 – Ravindra Kelekar (Marathi)
45.2007 - OP 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 (bengalese)
55.2017 - Krishna Sobti (hindi)
56.2018 - Amit Chaudhuri (inglese)
57.2019 - Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (Malayalam)
58.2020 - Chiranjit (bengalese)
59.2021 - Damodar Mauzo (Konkani)
60.2022 - Amitav Ghosh (inglese)