Moortidevi Award

Moortidevi Award is a literary award instituted in 1983 by the Bharatiya Jnanpith in the memory of Smt. Moorti Devi, mother of Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, the founder of Bharatiya Jnanpith.

The Award is given to literary works of contemplative or intellectual nature, highlighting and expressing Indian values and philosophical traditions by any living author writing in any of the languages enlisted in the 8th Schedule of Indian Constitution and in English. The Award consists of a Saraswati Statue, a Citation Plaque and a cash prize of Rs 4 lakhs.

The Award is not bestowed every year but is only given when the selection committee identifies a worthy recipient.

The first recipient of the award was the Kannada writer C.K. Nagaraja Rao who was honoured in 1983 for his novel, Pattamahadevi Shantala Devi, which was published in four volumes.

The complete list of awardees is given below:

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