The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature.
G Shankara Kurup better known as Mahakavi G, was an Indian poet, essayist and literary critic of Malayalam literature who won the first Jnanpith award for his collection of poems 'Odakkuzhal'.
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