Correct Option: E

The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the official languages of India is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper. Rajendra Shah won the Jnanpith — the Indian government’s most prestigious literary prize — for the year 2001. was a lyrical poet who wrote in Gujarati. Indira Goswami won this award in 2000. Note : The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their “outstanding contribution towards literature”. Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English. As of 2015, the cash prize has been revised to ?11 lakh (equivalent to ?12 lakh or US$18,000 in 2016). The most recent recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.