LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS (Important for po/clerk entrance exam:) 1. Man Booker Prize 2013 - Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries) 2. Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis 3. Asia Pacific International Award - Dr. Mujeeb Athar 4. Cecil B Demile Award - Woody Allen 5. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 - Malala Yousafzai 6. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace - Nelson Mandela 7. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 - Edward Snowden 8. Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival- Sacro GRA (Italy) (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 9. Grand Prize at Cubas International Radio and Telivision Festival - Baraksat (Lebanese Documentary) 10. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Kevin Barry 11. INDEX Design Award - Kavitha Shukla 12. ISRO Young Scientist Award - Jenita Mary 13. Jnanpith Award 2012 - Ravuri Bharadhwaja (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 14. Knighthood, which is the highest honour of Britain - Anish Kapoor (sculptor). 15. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran - Hariharan 16. Legend of Planet award - Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder) 17. Library of Congress Gershwin Award - Carole King (first woman) (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 18. National Literacy Award - Chattisgarh 19. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward - Abdul Kalam 20. NTR National Literary Award - Manoj Das (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 21. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 - Shashi Tharoor 22. Presidential medal of freedom - Dr. Sally Ride 23. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 - Adam Johnson (for the novel “The Orphan Master’s son”) 24. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Ranjan Sodhi (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 25. Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari 26. Skoch Group Award - Jharkhand 27. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony - Zubin Mehta 28. Tagore Peace Prize - Shihab Ghanem (first Arab) 29. The Simón Bolívar National Award of Journalism 2013 - Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan President ) 30. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award - V. Ramanathan 31. UEFA Best Player in Europe Award- Franck Ribéry 32. UN’s Public Service Award - Omen Chandi (Kerala CM) (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 33. Unique Female Leader Award - Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary) 34. United Nations Public Service Award - Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala). 35. US woman of courage award - Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim) 36. Vyas Samman (2012) – Narendra Kohli (data by goo.gl/8a2rgq) 37. Whitley award (Green Oscar) - Dr. Aparajita Datta 38. Women’s Prize for Fiction - AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven) 39. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest - Raghav Joneja 40. ParliamentarianAwards - 2012 - Sharad Yadav Recommended book— click- goo.gl/v8r4SF
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