The Jnanpith Award changed the object of its selection so that

the first seventeen awards went to a writer and the awards from the eighteenth go to a bookCorrect answerYour answerit has always been given for a writer's entire contributionCorrect answerYour answerit alternates each year between a book and a writerCorrect answerYour answerthe first seventeen awards went to a book and the awards from the eighteenth go to the writerCorrect answerYour answer

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For the first seventeen awards the Jnanpith selected the most outstanding work.
From the eighteenth award the rule was revised and the entire contribution of the author is taken into account.
That is why a citation from the 1960s names a title and a recent one does not.

Worth noting

This one change is what makes the Jnanpith a lifetime honour today. It is also what makes the Jnanpith and the Sahitya Akademi Award answer different questions, although both are literary and both are annual.

Concept: The Jnanpith's shift from work to writer
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