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SSC CHSL 2020 PYQ — Question 35

SSC CHSL - 19th October 2020 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q35

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Who has won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019?

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Correct answer: B

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The correct answer is option 2 i.e Amitabha Bagchi.

  • The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia themes such as culture, politics, history, or people.
  • Author Amitabha Bagchi has won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019, for his novel "Half the Night is Gone". It is Bagchi’s third novel.
  • A major part of Half The Night Is Gone, is based on an old forgotten world of scheming zamindars, dubious morals and a man lamenting lost opportunities.