Question:- Nora K. Jemisin has won which of the following awards for best novel?
(a) The Hugo Award
(b) Booker Prize
(c) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(d) None of the above.
Answer:- (a)
Related facts:-
- African-American author Nora K. Jemisin, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2017 for her work ‘The Obelisk Gate’.
- The award was presented at the 75th World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, Finland.
- The fantasy novel tells a story about the life on a planet where the inhabitants would undergo a “Fifth Season” of catastrophic climate change every a few centuries.
- The novel is about the life on a planet where the inhabitants would undergo a “Fifth Season” of catastrophic climate change every a few centuries.
- The awarded book is the second in the trilogy that started with “The Fifth Season”, which was New York Times Notable Book of 2015 and won Jemisin the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016.
Reference:-
https://www.inverse.com/article/35433-hugo-awards-2017-best-novel-winner-scifi-science-fiction-nk-jemisin
http://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/hugo-award-for-best-novel-2017-given-to-n-k-jemisin/805329/