Which Prize was awarded to Aravind Adiga for his The White Tiger?
Which Prize was awarded to Aravind Adiga for his The White Tiger?
Man Booker prize 2008
India’s Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker prize 2008 London: Beating predictions by bookies and others, debutant Indian novelist 33-year-old Aravind Adiga’s book “The White Tiger” was today declared the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2008.
Who was the fourth Indian to win the famous Man Booker Prize?
Aravind Adiga
| Aravind Adiga | |
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| Notable awards | 2008 Man Booker Prize (The White Tiger) |
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| www.aravindadiga.com | |
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What are the themes based on which Aravind Adiga wrote The White Tiger?
Freedom. In an interview with Aravind Adiga, he talked about how “The White Tiger” was a book about a man’s quest for freedom. Balram, the protagonist in the novel, worked his way out of his low social caste (often referred to as “the Darkness”) and overcame the social obstacles that limited his family in the past.
Which is the highest literature award in India?
Jnanpith Award
Jnanpith Award, highest literary award in India, given annually for the best creative literary writing to writers in any of the 22 “scheduled languages” recognized in the Indian Constitution. The prize carries a cash award, a citation, and a bronze replica of Vagdevi (Saraswati), the goddess of learning.
Which award is known as the Alternative Nobel Prize?
2021 Right Livelihood Award
The Delhi-based environmental organisation “Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)” has been felicitated with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award, an international honour, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.
Who was the first Indian to score a century?
Lala Amarnath Bharadwaj (11 September 1911 – 5 August 2000) was an Indian cricketer. He scored a century on test debut and became the first player to score a century for the India national cricket team in Test cricket.
Who was the first Indian to win the Magsaysay award?
Vinoba Bhave
Vinoba Bhave was the 1st Magsaysay Award winner. Human rights activist Vinoba Bhave was among the first five individuals to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award in its year of inception in 1958. Bhave received the Community Leadership award for his dedication to “propagation of a new kind of social revolution in India”.
Who got first Man Booker Prize?
The inaugural Man Booker International Prize was the culmination of many years of discussion about a possible new global prize. It recognised an author’s body of work and was to be awarded every two years. The first winner, Ismail Kadare, was celebrated in Edinburgh in 2005.
Who was the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in physics?
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 was awarded to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.”
Why is Balram called The White Tiger?
Balram’s natural intelligence and integrity set him apart from his peers from an early age. On one occasion, his academic prowess so impresses a visiting school inspector that the official calls him a “White Tiger”: the most noble and intelligent animal in the jungle.
What is the theme of the novel?
A literary theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these elements.