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2017

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which award did Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Meg recently?
A
Sahitya Akademi Award 2017
B
Param Vir Chakra
C
Ron Brown Award
D
Jake Award
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mamang Dai and Ramesh Kuntal Megh have won the Sahitya Akademi award for their work The Black Hill and Vishw Mithak Sarit Sagar respectively.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mumbai: The ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ for 2022 will be given to Anuradha Roy for English Literature, Badri Narayan for Hindi Literature and Praveen Bandekar for Marathi Literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Awards. She received Padma Shri in 2011 from the Government of India. The government of Arunachal Pradesh conferred on her annual Verrier Elwin Prize in 2013 for her book Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land. She received Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017 for her novel The Black Hill.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sahitya Akademi award is the second-highest literary honour by the Government of India, after the Jnanpith award.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bhai Vir Singh was the first winner of this award. Amrita Pritam was the first woman winner of this award.

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