Question: Recently eminent writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi passed away. She won Jnanpith award in which of the following year?
(a) 1995
(b) 1996
(c) 1999
(d) 1980
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 28 July 2016 writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi passed away in Kolkata. She was 90.
- Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- She always fought for the rights of women, Dalits and tribals through her writings.
- In 1997, she was awarded with the “Ramon Magsaysay Award”.
- In 1979 she won ‘Sahitya Academy Award’ and in 1996 she won “Jnanpith award”.
- In 1986, the Government of India awarded him with ‘Padma Shri’ and in 2006 with ‘Padam Vibhushan’.
- West Bengal Government awarded her with “Banga Bhushan” the state’s highest civilian honor, in 2011.
- In a six-decade literary career, she authored over 120 books, comprising 20 collections of short stories and around 100 novels, and contributed innumerable articles and columns to newspapers and magazines, a large number of them woven around tribal life.
- Her first book, Jhansi’s Rani (The Queen of Jhansi), came in 1956 is one her best creation other includes Aranyer Adhikar (The Occupation of the Forest, 1977), Agnigarbha (Womb of Fire, 1978).
Reference:
http://bdnews24.com/neighbours/2016/07/28/indian-writer-social-activist-mahasweta-devi-dies-at-90
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/mahasweta-devi-writeractivist-passes-away/article8911291.ece
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mahasweta-devi-dies-at-90-bengali-writer-social-activist/1/726438.html