Question: On November 15, 2021, famous writer and story writer Mannu Bhandari passed away. In which year he was awarded the prestigious ‘Vyas Samman’?
(a) Year 2008
(b) Year 2014
(c) Year 2010
(d) Year 2016
Answer—(a)
Related facts
- Famous writer and story writer Mannu Bhandari passed away on 15 November 2021.
- He was born on 3 April 1931 in Bhanpura, Indore State, British India.
- Bhandari has been credited with writing many books, which date back to the late 1950s and early 1960s India. Two of her most renowned Hindi novels, however, remain ‘Aapka Banti‘ and ‘Mahabhoj‘.
- Mannu Bhandari, the forerunner of the Nai Kahani movement and writing on topics like women’s freedom, made a different identity with novels like ‘Mahabhoj’ and ‘Aapka Bunty’.
- Basu Chatterjee also made the film ‘Rajnigandha’ in the year 1974 based on a story written by him ‘Yi Sach Hai’.
- He has made a significant contribution to Hindi literature as a storyteller.
- His main works are ‘I lost’, ‘A picture of three eyes’, ‘A plate flood’, ‘This is the truth’, ‘Aankhon seen a lie’ and ‘Hung’ etc.
- She wrote the novel ‘Ek Inch Muskaan’ with her husband and famous litterateur and writer Rajendra Yadav. Which is a sad love story of educated and modern people.
- K.K. He was awarded the prestigious ‘Vyas Samman’ of the year 2008 by the Birla Foundation for his novel ‘Ik Kahani Yeh Bhi’.