Question: who was the first punjabi novelist to get jnanpith award
Answer: Pottekkatt Malayalam 1981 ( 17th ) Amrita Pritam Punjabi 1982 ( 18th ) Mahadevi Varma Hindi ( 19th ) Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Kannada 1984 ( 20th ) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Malayalam 1985 ( 21st ) Pannalal Patel Gujarati 1986 ( 22nd ) Sachidananda Routray Odia ( 23rd ) Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar ' Kusumagraj ' Marathi ( 24th ) C.