CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Writer Kritika Pandey was announced as the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner, both regional (Asia) and overall on 30 June 2020.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kritika Pandey was announced as the overall winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Great Indian Tee and Snakes’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eswatini writer Ntsika Kota has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘and the earth drank deep’. Kota’s story centres on a group of villagers in a hunter-gatherer society in the distant past of our species.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kritika Pandey is an Indian writer, well known for her short story writing. She is the recipient of a 2021 residency grant at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. She is the overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2020, having been shortlisted for the prize in 2018 as well as 2016.

Detailed explanation-5: -Bilal Tanweer Bilal Tanweer’s novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great (HarperCollins) won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Chautauqua Prize (US).