GK
HONOURS AND AWARDS
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Question
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Who among the following recently received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014?
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Salman Akhtar
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Javed Akhtar
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Imtiaz Dharekar
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Ryan Adams
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Queen has approved the award of Her Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry for the year 2014 to Imtiaz Dharker.
Detailed explanation-2: -He is and honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry in 1988.
Detailed explanation-3: -’ ‘Blessing’ is from Dharker’s first book, published in 1989. ‘The scene of ‘Blessing’ is the largest slum in Asia-Dharavi, on the outskirts of Bombay.
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