<P> As of 2015 , the cash prize has been revised to ₹ 11 lakh ( equivalent to ₹ 12 lakh or US $18,000 in 2016 ) and out of twenty - three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in fifteen languages : Hindi ( ten ) , Kannada ( eight ) , Bengali ( six ) , Malayalam ( five ) , Gujarati , Marathi , Odia , and Urdu ( four each ) , Telugu ( three ) , Assamese , Punjabi , and Tamil ( two each ) , Kashmiri , Konkani , and Sanskrit ( one each ) . The award has been conferred upon fifty - seven writers including seven women authors . In 1976 , Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Pratham Pratisruti ( The First Promise ) , the first in a trilogy . The most recent recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016 . </P>
<P> As of 2015 , the cash prize has been revised to ₹ 11 lakh ( equivalent to ₹ 12 lakh or US $18,000 in 2016 ) and out of twenty - three eligible languages the award has been presented for works in fifteen languages : Hindi ( ten ) , Kannada ( eight ) , Bengali ( six ) , Malayalam ( five ) , Gujarati , Marathi , Odia , and Urdu ( four each ) , Telugu ( three ) , Assamese , Punjabi , and Tamil ( two each ) , Kashmiri , Konkani , and Sanskrit ( one each ) . The award has been conferred upon fifty - seven writers including seven women authors . In 1976 , Bengali novelist Ashapoorna Devi became the first woman to win the award and was honoured for the 1965 novel Pratham Pratisruti ( The First Promise ) , the first in a trilogy . The most recent recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016 . </P>
who was awarded with the prestigious nana peeta award in the year 2016
who was awarded with the prestigious nana peeta award in the year 2016
Shankha Ghosh
Shankha Ghosh