{"id":124264,"date":"2021-10-14T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=124264"},"modified":"2021-10-14T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T10:52:19","slug":"noble-prize-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/noble-prize-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Noble Prize in literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- Which of the following person has won the Noble prize in literature?<\/strong><br>(a) Abdulrazak Gurnah<br>(b) W.C. MacMillan<br>(c) Benjamin List<br>(d) All of the above<br><strong>Ans. (a)<br>Relate facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In October 2021, the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was recognized for his \u201cuncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.<\/li><li><strong>About Noble Prize-<\/strong><\/li><li>Nobel Prize is a prestigious prize awarded separately in six different fields \u201cto those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind\u201d.<\/li><li>Originally, the prize was awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.<\/li><li>The Peace Prize was characterised as \u201cto the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses&#8221;.<\/li><li>Later in 1968, a sixth prize was added in the field of economic sciences.<\/li><li>The Prize is officially not a Nobel Prize but it is called as &#8220;The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel&#8221;.<\/li><li>It was established by Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden\u2019s central bank).<\/li><li>Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist, signed his last will and testament on 27 November, 1895, giving most of his fortune to prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace.<\/li><li>Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who is most famous for inventing dynamite.<\/li><li>He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 21 October 1833.<\/li><li>He was fluent in many languages and had interests in poetry and drama.<\/li><li>It is said that he was very interested in peace-related issues and held views, which were considered radical during his time.<\/li><li>He died in 1896. In his will, he gave most of his assets for the establishment of five prizes, which later became Nobel Prizes.<\/li><li>The first Nobel Prize was given on 10 December, 1901.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By- Yogesh Pratap Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/alfred-nobel\/alfred-nobels-will\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/alfred-nobel\/alfred-nobels-will\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Which of the following person has won the Noble prize in literature?(a) Abdulrazak Gurnah(b) W.C. MacMillan(c) Benjamin List(d) All of the aboveAns. (a)Relate facts In October 2021, the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was recognized for his \u201cuncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":124265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124266,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124264\/revisions\/124266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}