CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -On February 27, PEN America announced that Hindi short story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist Vinod Kumar Shukla is the recipient the 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. He will receive the award on March 2 at a ceremony in New York City, US.

Detailed explanation-2: -in International LiteratureThe Pen/Nabokov Award for Achievement, commonly known as the Pen/Nabokov Prize, is awarded biennially by Pen America to writers, primarily novelists. The award is funded by the Vladimir Nabokov Foundation, established by the American opera singer and translator Dmitri Nabokov.