Moortidevi Award
The Moortidevi Award is an India literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organisation, to an author. The award is given only to Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, and in English, with no posthumous conferral or self nomination.

From 2003, the award was given to the authors for their "contemplative and perceptive work" and consisted of a cash prize of ₹1 lakh (US$1,600), a citation plaque, a shawl, and a statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom. The cash prize was raised to in 2011 and to in 2013. The first recipient of the award was the Kannada writer C. K. Nagaraja Rao who was honoured in 1983 for his novel, "Pattamahadevi Shantala Devi", which was published in four volumes.

Works have been presented the award in ten of the twenty-three eligible languages: Urdu, Telugu, Rajasthani, Marathi and Bengali (one each), Gujarati, Odia and Kannada (two), Malayalam (three) and Hindi (sixteen). No awards were given in 1985 and between 1996 and 1999. The award has been conferred upon twenty-nine writers including one female author: In 1991, Odia academic and writer Pratibha Ray became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1985 novel "Yajnasani". Ray and Nirmal Verma have won both the Moortidevi as well as the Jnanpith Award. As of 2019, Hindi writer and professor, Vishwanath Tiwari is the most recent recipient of the award.
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Bharatiya Jnanpith
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Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India
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Saraswati
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Kannada
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C. K. Nagaraja Rao
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Telugu
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Rajasthani
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Marathi
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Bengali
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Gujarati
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Odia
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Malayalam
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Hindi
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Pratibha Ray
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Nirmal Verma
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Jnanpith Award
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Moortidevi Award
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