Question: Who has been awarded the prestigious 2020 International Booker Prize?
(a) Shokoofeh Azar
(b) Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
(c) Fernanda Melchor
(d) Yoko Ogawa
Answer :(b)
Related facts:
- Dutch Author, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won the International Booker Prize 2020 for her debut novel ‘The Discomfort of Evening’.
- Rijneveld became the youngest author to win the prize at the age of 29.
- The book tells the fictional story of Jas, a girl in a devout Christian farming family, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit.
- The book was first published in Dutch in 2018 and eventually translated into English by Michele Hutchison.
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay