Krishna Sobti has been awarded the 53rd Jnanpith Award for the 2017 for her pathbreaking contribution in Indian literature. The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organisation to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”.
Jnanpith Award List
| Year | Recipient(s) | Language(s) |
| 1965 | G. Sankara Kurup | Malayalam |
| (1st) | ||
| 1966 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Bengali |
| (2nd) | ||
| 1967 | Umashankar Joshi | Gujarati |
| (3rd) † | ||
| 1967 | Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa ‘Kuvempu’ | Kannada |
| (3rd) † | ||
| 1968 | Sumitranandan Pant | Hindi |
| (4th) | ||
| 1969 | Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu |
| (5th) | ||
| 1970 | Viswanatha Satyanarayana | Telugu |
| (6th) | ||
| 1971 | Bishnu Dey | Bengali |
| (7th) | ||
| 1972 | Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ | Hindi |
| (8th) | ||
| 1973 | D. R. Bendre | Kannada |
| (9th) † | ||
| 1973 | Gopinath Mohanty | Odia |
| (9th) † | ||
| 1974 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar | Marathi |
| (10th) | ||
| 1975 | Akilan | Tamil |
| (11th) | ||
| 1976 | Ashapoorna Devi | Bengali |
| (12th) | ||
| 1977 | K. Shivaram Karanth | Kannada |
| (13rd) | ||
| 1978 | Sachchidananda Vatsyayan | Hindi |
| (14th) | ||
| 1979 | Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya | Assamese |
| (15th) | ||
| 1980 | S. K. Pottekkatt | Malayalam |
| (16th) | ||
| 1981 | Amrita Pritam | Punjabi |
| (17th) | ||
| 1982 | Mahadevi Varma | Hindi |
| (18th) | ||
| 1983 | Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Kannada |
| (19th) | ||
| 1984 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam |
| (20th) | ||
| 1985 | Pannalal Patel | Gujarati |
| (21st) | ||
| 1986 | Sachidananda Routray | Odia |
| (22nd) | ||
| 1987 | Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar ‘Kusumagraj’ | Marathi |
| (23rd) | ||
| 1988 | C. Narayana Reddy | Telugu |
| (24th) | ||
| 1989 | Qurratulain Hyder | Urdu |
| (25th) | ||
| 1990 | Vinayaka Krishna Gokak | Kannada |
| (26th) | ||
| 1991 | Subhash Mukhopadhyay | Bengali |
| (27th) | ||
| 1992 | Naresh Mehta | Hindi |
| (28th) | ||
| 1993 | Sitakant Mahapatra | Odia |
| (29th) | ||
| 1994 | U. R. Ananthamurthy | Kannada |
| (30th) | ||
| 1995 | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Malayalam |
| (31st) | ||
| 1996 | Mahasweta Devi | Bengali |
| (32nd) | ||
| 1997 | Ali Sardar Jafri | Urdu |
| (33rd) | ||
| 1998 | Girish Karnad | Kannada |
| (34th) | ||
| 1999 | Nirmal Verma | Hindi |
| (35th) † | ||
| 1999 | Gurdial Singh | Punjabi |
| (35th) † | ||
| 2000 | Mamoni Raisom Goswami | Assamese |
| (36th) | ||
| 2001 | Rajendra Shah | Gujarati |
| (37th) | ||
| 2002 | Jayakanthan | Tamil |
| (38th) | ||
| 2003 | Vinda Karandikar | Marathi |
| (39th) | ||
| 2004 | Rehman Rahi | Kashmiri |
| (40th) | ||
| 2005 | Kunwar Narayan | Hindi |
| (41st) | ||
| 2006 | Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani |
| (42nd) † | ||
| 2006 | Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit |
| (42nd) † | ||
| 2007 | O. N. V. Kurup | Malayalam |
| (43rd) | ||
| 2008 | Akhlaq Mohammed Khan ‘Shahryar’ | Urdu |
| (44th) | ||
| 2009 | Amarkant | Hindi |
| (45th) † | ||
| 2009 | Sri Lal Sukla | Hindi |
| (45th) † | ||
| 2010 | Chandrashekhara Kambara | Kannada |
| (46th) | ||
| 2011 | Pratibha Ray | Odia |
| (47th) | ||
| 2012 | Ravuri Bharadhwaja | Telugu |
| (48th) | ||
| 2013 | Kedarnath Singh | Hindi |
| (49th) | ||
| 2014 | Bhalchandra Nemade | Marathi |
| (50th) | ||
| 2015 | Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati |
| (51st) | ||
| 2016 | Shankha Ghosh | Bengali |
| (52nd) |