Bharatiya Janapith Award is a liteary award in India institued by Santhiprasad Jain on 14th February 1964. First awarded in the year 1965 and from 1965 to 1981 the award were given for a single work by a writer. And from 1982, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution.
| Year | Awardees | Language |
| 1965 | G. Sankarakurup | Malayalam |
| 1966 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Bengali |
| 1967 | K. V. Puttappa | Kannada |
| Umashankar Joshi | Gujarati | |
| 1968 | Sumitrananthan Pant | Hindi |
| 1969 | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu |
| 1970 | Dr. V. Satyanarayana | Telugu |
| 1971 | Bishnu Dey | Bengali |
| 1972 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar | Hindi |
| 1973 | D. R. Bendre | Kannada |
| 1974 | V.S Khandekar | Marathi |
| 1975 | P.V. Akhilan | Tamil |
| 1976 | Ashapoorna Devi | Bengali |
| 1977 | K. Sivaram Karanth | Kannada |
| 1978 | S.H. Vatsyayan | Hindi |
| 1979 | B.K. Bhattacharya | Assamese |
| 1980 | S.K. Pottekkatt | Malayalam |
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Punjabi |
| 1982 | Mahadevi Varma | Hindi |
| 1983 | Dr. Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Kannada |
| 1984 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam |
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati |
| 1986 | Sachidananda Routray | Oriya |
| 1987 | V.V Shirwadkar | Marathi |
| 1988 | Dr. C. Narayana Reddy | Telugu |
| 1989 | Qurratulain Hyder | Urdu |
| 1990 | V. K. Gokak | Kannada |
| 1991 | Subhas Mukhopadhyay | Bengali |
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi |
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Oriya |
| 1994 | Dr. U. R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada |
| 1995 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam |
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali |
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu |
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | Kannada |
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |
| Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | |
| 2000 | Indira Goswami | Assamese |
| 2001 | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati |
| 2002 | D. Jayakanthan | Tamil |
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi |
| 2004 | Abdul Rehman Rahi | Kashmiri |
| 2005 | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi |
| 2006 | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani |
| Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit | |
| 2007 | O. N. V. Kurup | Malayalam |
| 2008 | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' | Urdu |
| 2009 | Amar Kant | Hindi |
| Lal Shukla | Hindi | |
| 2010 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Kannada |
| 2011 | Pratibha Ray | Oriya |
| 2012 | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu |
| 2013 | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi |
| 2014 | Bhalchandra Nemade | Marathi |
| 2015 | Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati |
