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Question : 36 [SSC GL 2013]
Who was the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award ?
a) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
b) G. Sankara Kurup
c) Dr. K.V. Puttappa
d) M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Answer »Answer: (b)
G. Sankara Kurup was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam Odakkuzhal (The bamboo flute, 1950).
Question : 38 [SSC CGL 2016]
The novelist, poet and critic of which language has been conferred with Jnanpith Award for 2015?
a) Odia
b) Telugu
c) Bengali
d) Gujarati
Answer »Answer: (d)
President Pranab Mukherjee, in July 2016, conferred the 51st Jnanpith Award on renowned Gujarati writer and litterateur Dr Raghuveer Chaudhari at a function in New Delhi.
Chaudhary is the fourth Gujarati litterateur to bag this prestigious award after Uma Shankar Joshi (1967), Pannalal Patel (1985) and Rajendra Shah (2001).
Note: The most recent recipient of the award is Bengali poet and critic Shankha Ghosh who was awarded for the year 2016.
Question : 39
Consider the following statements:
- The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honour an architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment posthumously.
- The Stirling Prize is a British Prize for excellence in architecture.
a) Both 1 and 2
b) 1 only
c) 2 only
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer »Answer: (a)
Both the given statements are correct.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honour a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” Founded in 1979 by Jay A.
Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation and is considered to be one of the world’s premier architecture prizes; it is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. The prize is said to be awarded “irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology.”
The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and a bronze medallion. The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to “the architect of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.”
The architects must be RIBA members, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union. Stirling Prize laureates receive a stipend of GB £20,000.
Question : 40
Saraswati Samman is given to which field?
a) Social Harmony
b) Science
c) Literature
d) Sanskrit Literature
Answer »Answer: (c)
The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any Indian language. It was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.
The award contains 10 lakh, a citation and a plaque. Candidates are selected from literary works published in the previous ten years by a panel that includes scholars and former award winners.
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