CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -2022 International Booker Prize awards ceremony in pictures Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell with the novel Tomb of Sand, winner of the International Booker Prize 2022.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ruth Ozeki: ‘A masterful storyteller’ A celebration of the power of books and reading, it tackles big issues of life and death, and is a complete joy to read.” Ozeki, 66, is also an English professor, as well as a filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest.

Detailed explanation-3: -Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Women’s Prize for Fiction (then the Orange Prize) in 2007. Set in Nigeria during the Biafran War, the novel is about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class, race and female empowerment – and how love can complicate all of these things.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Novel Prize. It was the fourth year of the Prizes’ existence. “The Age of Innocence,” Wharton’s book about New York high society during the 1870s, captured the Novel Prize, as the Fiction award was known for the first three decades of its existence.