The Pampa Award (or Pampa Prashasti) is a literary award in the Indian state of Karnataka. The award was established in 1987 by the government of Karnataka. It is the highest literary honor conferred by the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka State, and recognises works written in the Kannada language (1 of the 22 official languages of India).

The award is named after the first Kannada poet Adikavi Pampa. The award originally comprised a cash prize of ₹1 lakh (US$1,200), a shawl, a citation and a memento. The cash prize was increased to ₹3 lakh (US$3,600) in 2008. Prior to 1996, the awards were given for a best single work by a Kannada writer. Since then, the award has been given to writers for their lifetime contribution to the Kannada literature. The Pampa Prashasti is presented by the Chief Minister, during the Kadambotsava, a cultural festival held annually in Pampa's hometown of Banavasi in Uttara Kannada district.

Since its inception in 1987, the award has been given to a more than 30 individuals. Kuvempu was the first recipient of the award who was honored for his work Sri Ramayana Darshanam (1949), a modern rendition of the Indian epic Ramayana. In 2015, Chandrashekhar Patil returned his award as a sign of protest against the assassination of the scholar M. M. Kalburgi. The most recent recipient is [[]], who was awarded in 2019 for his lifetime contribution.

Recipients

Year	Writer	Work	Ref.
1987	Kuvempu	Sri Ramayana Darshanam
1988	T. N. Srikantaiah	Bharathiya Kavya Meemaamse
1989	K. Shivaram Karanth	Mai Managala Sulliyali
1990	S. S. Bhoosnurmath	Shoonya Sampadaneya Paramarshe
1991	P. T. Narasimhachar	Shri Haricharitha
1992	A. N. Murthy Rao	Devaru
1993	Gopalakrishna Adiga	Suvarna Puthalli
1994	Sediyapu Krishna Bhatta	Vichara Prapancha
1995	K. S. Narasimhaswamy	Dundu Mallige
1996	M. M. Kalburgi	Lifetime contribution
1997	G. S. Shivarudrappa	Lifetime contribution
1998	Javare Gowda	Lifetime contribution
1999	Chennaveera Kanavi	Lifetime contribution
2000	L. Basavaraju	Lifetime contribution
2001	Poornachandra Tejaswi	Lifetime contribution
2002	M. Chidananda Murthy	Lifetime contribution
2003	Chandrashekhara Kambara	Lifetime contribution
2004	H. L. Nage Gowda	Lifetime contribution
2005	S. L. Bhyrappa	Lifetime contribution
2006	G. S. Amur	Lifetime contribution
2007	Yashwant V. Chittal	Lifetime contribution
2008	T. V. Venkatachala Sastry	Lifetime contribution
2009	Chandrashekhar Patil	Lifetime contribution
2010	Govindray H. Nayak	Lifetime contribution
2011	Baraguru Ramachandrappa	Lifetime contribution
2012	D. N. Shankara Bhat	Lifetime contribution
2013	Kayyar Kinhanna Rai	Lifetime contribution
2014	G. Venkatasubbiah	Kannada lexicography
2015	B. A. Sanadi	Lifetime contribution
2016	Hampanā	Lifetime contribution
2017	K. S. Nissar Ahmed	Lifetime contribution
2018	S. Shettar	Lifetime contribution
2019	Siddalingaiah	Lifetime contribution
2020	C P Krishnakumar	Lifetime contribution
2021	S.R.Ramaswamy	Lifetime contribution
2022	Babu Krishnamurthy	Lifetime contribution
2023	Na D'Souza	Lifetime contribution