Question: US-based Dalit writer Sujatha Gidla has won 2018 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for which of the following book?
(a) We That Are Young
(b) How to Travel Light
(c) Remnants of a Separation
(d) Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- US-based Dalit writer Sujatha Gidla has won 2018 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for her first book “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India”. The book is published by HarperCollins India.
- Sujatha Gidla’s debut book, presents scenario of four generations of her family, at the centre of which is her uncle and People’s War Group co-founder K G Satyamurthy.
- Gidla was born in 1963 in Telangana’s, Kazipet.
- “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India” was selected as winner among the six shortlisted books because of its urgency, its revelations and its understated but seamless match of form with content.
- The jury panel for this year’s Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize included writers likes Sampurna Chattarji, Raghu Karnad and Githa Hariharan.
- The Shakti Bhat First Book Prize is funded by the Shakti Bhatt It was set up in 2008 in memory of young writer Sthakti. It carries a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh.
Links:
https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/us-based-dalit-writer-sujatha-gidla-wins-shakti-bhatt-prize-118102100180_1.html
https://www.firstpost.com/living/sujatha-gidlas-ants-among-elephants-declared-winner-of-shakti-bhatt-first-book-prize-2018-5415211.html