Literature Quiz 21: Jnanpith Award Quiz 2

Literature Quiz 21: Jnanpith Award Quiz 2

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1. Considered as the first prominent female Punjabi writer, she is the first to receive Jnanpith Award for Punjabi literature. Who is she?

Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Amrita Pritam
Urvashi Butalia
Ajeet Cour

2. Who is the first Indian writer in English to receive the prestigious Jnanpith Award?

Vikram Seth
Salman Rushdie
Anita Desai
Amitav Ghosh

3. This Jnanpith Award winning novel by Mahasweta Devi also won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. Can you name the novel?

Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Ma
Aranyer Adhikar
Agnigarbha
Sunghursh

4. One of the most influential novelists in the Kannada language, this Jnanpith Award winner of 1978, returned his Padma Bhushan honour in protest against the emergency imposed in 1975. Can you name the writer?

K Shivaram Karanth
P Lankesh
Gopalakrishna Adiga
Kuvempu

5. Who is the first Sanskrit author to win India's highest literary award, the Jnanpith Award?

Harshadev Madhav
Satya Vrat Shastri
Bhaskaracharya Tripathi
Amrita Pritam

6. This national award winning Kannada film director who is also an actor and writer, was the recipient of the 34th Jnanpith Award in 1998. Who is he?

Girish Karnad
U R Ananthamurthy
Kuvempu
Sivarama Karanth

7. For which one of the following Malayalam novels Thakazhi received the prestigious Jnanpith Award?

Chemmeen
Randidangazhi
Kayar
Enippadikal

8. Who was the first writer from Telugu to receive Jnanpith Award?

Chandrashekhara Kambara
C. Narayana Reddy
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Ravuri Bharadhwaja

9. Most number of Jnanpith Awards were received by which language?

Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Bengali

10. As on date, how many Malayalam writers have received Jnanpith Award?

11
8
15
6

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