The Jnanpith Selection Board has announced the recipient of the 51st Jnanpith Award on Tuesday in a meeting. It went to eminent Gujarati litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary.

The decision was taken in a meeting of Jnanpith Selection Board chaired by noted scholar, writer and critic Prof. Namwar Singh. Other eminent persons of the selection board are Prof. Shamim Hanfi, Harish Trivedi, Prof. Suranjan Das, Ramakant Rath, Chandrakant Patil, Prof. Alok Rai, Dinesh Misra and Leeladhar Mandloi.