1. 1965 - G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam)
2. 1966 - Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (Bengalce)
3. 1967 - Umashankar Joshi (Gucerat Dili)
4. 1967 - K. V. Puttappa (Kannadaca)
5. 1968 - Sumitranandan Pantolonu (Hintçe)
6. 1969 - Firak Gorakhpuri (Urduca)
7. 1970 - Viswanatha Satyanarayana (Telugu dili)
8. 1971 - Bishnu Dey (Assamese)
9. 1972 - Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (Hintçe)
10. 1973 - D. R. Bendre (Kannada)
11. 1973 - Gopinath Mohanty (Odia)
12. 1974 - Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Marathi)
13. 1975 - P.V. Akilandam (Tamilce)
14. 1976 - Ashapoorna Devi (Bengalce)
15. 1977 - K. S. Narasimhaswamy (Kannada)
16. 1978 - S.H. Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' (Hintçe)
17. 1979 - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (Assam dili)
18. 1980 - S.K. Pottekkatt (Malayalam)
19. 1981 - Amrita Pritam (Pencap)
20. 1982 - Sitakant Mahapatra (Odia)
21. 1983 - Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (Kannada)
22. 1984 - Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (Malayalam)
23. 1985 - Phanishwarnath 'Renu' (Hintçe)
24. 1986 - Sachidananda Rotası (Odia)
25. 1987 - Vişnu Sakharam Khandekar (Marathi)
26. 1988 - C. Narayana Reddy (Telugu dili)
27. 1989 - Kurratulain Hyder (Urduca)
28. 1990 - Vinda Karandikar (Marathi)
29. 1991 - Subhash Mukhopadhyay (Bengalce)
30. 1992 - Nirmal Verma (Hintçe)
31. 1993 - Girish Karnad (Kannadaca)
32. 1994 - U. R. Ananthamurthy (Kannada)
33. 1995 - M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Malayalam)
34. 1996 - Mahasweta Devi (Bengalce)
35. 1997 - Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' (Hintçe)
36. 1998 - Girish Chandra Sen (Bengalce)
37. 1999 - Nissim Ezekiel (İngilizce)
38. 2000 - Indira Goswami (Assam)
39. 2001 - O.N.V. Kurup (Malayalam)
40. 2002 - Govind Chandra Pandey (Hintçe)
41. 2003 - Deepa Mehta (Hintçe)
42. 2004 - K. J. Yesudas (Malayalam)
43. 2005 - Kunwar Narain (Hintçe)
44. 2006 - Ravindra Kelekar (Marathi)
45. 2007 - OP Bhatnagar (Hintçe)
46. 2008 - Akhil Katha (Hintçe)
47. 2009 - Pratibha Ray (Odia)
48. 2010 - Chandrashekhara Kambar (Kannadaca)
49. 2011 - Pratibha Ray (Odia)
50. 2012 - Ravindra Kelekar (Marathi)
51. 2013 - Kedarnath Singh (Hintçe)
52. 2014 - Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi)
53. 2015 - Raghunath Chaudhari (Odia)
54. 2016 - Shankha Ghosh (Bengalce)
55. 2017 - Krishna Sobti (Hintçe)
56. 2018 - Amit Chaudhuri (İngilizce)
57. 2019 - Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (Malayalam)
58. 2020 - Chiranjit (Bengalce)
59. 2021 - Damodar Mauzo (Konkani)
60. 2022 - Amitav Ghosh (İngilizce)