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SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 26

SSC CGL - 19 April 2022 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q26

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Who among the following won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature?

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. S Hareesh.

  • The winner of the JCB Prize for Literature was Hareesh's "Moustache" (2020) M. Mukundan's "Delhi: A Soliloquy" , translated from Malayalam by Fathima E.V. and Nandakumar K.
  • Moustache is the second translated novel to win the award, after Benyamin’s Jasmine Days, also in Malayalam, translated by Shahnaz Habib, in 2018.
  • The JCB Prize for Literature is a Rs 25-lakh award presented each year to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian author.