Literature Quiz 31: Indian Literary Awards

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Literature Quiz 31: Indian Literary Awards

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Literature Quiz 31: Indian Literary Awards


This quiz is based on the recent Indian literary awards.

Literature Quiz 31: Indian Literary Awards


1. The Dhahan Prize is awarded to the literature in which language?
Hindi
Marathi
Punjabi
Gujarati

2. Who won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020?
Dharini Bhaskar
Samit Basu
Annie Zaidi
S Hareesh

3. Who among the following won the 2020 Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection "When God is a Traveller"?
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhati Roy
Tishani Doshi
Rupi Kaur

4. This former Chiief Minister of an South Indian state was one of the winners of the 2020 Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry. Who is he?
H D Kumaraswamy
N Chandrababu Naidu
H D Deve Gowda
M Veerappa Moily

5. Who was selected for Vyas Samman 2020?
Sharad Pagare
Nasira Sharmma
Leeladhar Jagudi
Sunita Jain

6. Who received the 55th Jnanpith Award in 2019?
Amitav Ghosh
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
Krishna Sobti
Shankha Ghosh

7. Who was the recipient of Moortidevi Award 2019?
Vishwanath Tiwari
Joy Goswami
M P Veerendra Kumar
Kolakaluri Enoch

8. The Hindu Literary Prize 2019 was won by Mirza Waheed. Do you know the book which got him the coveted prize?
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
The Queen of Jasmine Country
Tell Her Everything
The Collaborator

9. Who wrote the book "Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came" which won 2019 Shakti Bhatt Prize?
Numair Atif Choudhury
Tony Joseph
Roshan Ali
Shashi Tharoor

10. Who received 202 Saraswati Samman for his Marathi novel "Sanatan"?
Anna Bhau Sathe
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Sharankumar Limbale
Anant Sadashiv Altekar

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