First recipient of Jnanpith Award was ?
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G Sankara Kurup, for Odakkuzhal (Flute) in Malayalam in 1965.
This honor was Instituted in 1961 .
This is a literary award in India along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship and any citizen of India who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible.
it is one of the two most prestigious literary honors in the country.
It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.