Who among the following is the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, 2016?
- A.Shankha Ghosh
- B.Raghuveer Chaudhari
- C.Pratibha Ray
- D.Rehman Rahi
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Shankha Ghosh. The Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh received the 52nd Jnanpith Award, for the year 2016.
The Jnanpith Award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust for an outstanding contribution to literature in Indian languages, and is India's highest literary honour. It was first given in 1965 to the Malayalam poet G. Sankara Kurup. Shankha Ghosh, a leading modern Bengali poet and critic and a scholar of Rabindranath Tagore, wrote collections such as Dinguli Ratguli and Babarer Prarthana. He died in 2021.
B is wrong because the Gujarati writer Raghuveer Chaudhari received the 51st award, for 2015. C is wrong because the Odia novelist Pratibha Ray was honoured for 2011. D is wrong because Rehman Rahi received it for 2004 and was the first Kashmiri writer to win it.
Exam tip: Jnanpith: first in 1965 (G. Sankara Kurup); 2015 Raghuveer Chaudhari (Gujarati); 2016 Shankha Ghosh (Bengali).
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