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Who has won the 2019 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize?
A
Menka Shivdasani
B
Neel Mukherjee
C
Rana Dasgupta
D
Jayanta Mahapatra
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The 2019 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize in literature was awarded to Rana Dasgupta for the literary novel “Solo”.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection A Sky Full of Bucket Lists (Red River, 2021).

Detailed explanation-3: -Journalist-author Raj Kamal Jha has won the 3rd Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for his novel, “The City and The Sea". Jha’s book, which is based on the December 2012 Nirbhaya rape and murder case, was chosen from ten shortlisted books.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first award was given in 2012 to Pandit Ravi Shankar by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

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