The Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor, was first awarded in the year _____.
- 1951
- 1961
- 1965
- 1972
Answer: 1965
The Jnanpith Award was instituted in 1961 by the Bharatiya Jnanpith and first awarded in 1965 to G. Sankara Kurup for his Malayalam poetry collection 'Odakkuzhal'.