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Literature (സാഹിത്യം)

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The Moortidevi Award is an annual literary award in India presented by the Bharatiya Jnanpith organization for a work which emphasizes Indian philosophy and culture. The prize includes an amount of Rupees Four Lakh, a plaque, a statue of Saraswati, and a shawl.

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Vinod Kumar Shukla (വിനോദ് കുമാർ ശുക്ല)

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The 59th Jnanpith Award (for 2024) has been given to Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla. This award is considered the country’s highest literary honour.

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Literature ( സാഹിത്യം)

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The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any of the 23 languages of India. The Saraswati Samman was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.

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Booker Price ( ബുക്കർ പ്രൈസ്)

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The Booker Prize is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction and awarded by Booker Prize Foundation. The prize was first awarded in 1969 to promote reading and literary excellence. It aims to promote excellence in fiction by rewarding an original work of fiction, written in English.

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Arundhati Roy ( അരുന്ധതി റോയ്)

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Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

The God of Small Things was Roy's debut novel, which is a story about childhood experiences of the fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" prevalent in the 1960s in Kerala, India. The novel explores how small, seemingly insignificant occurrences, decisions, and experiences shape people's behavior in deeply significant ways. The novel also explores the lingering effects of casteism in India and British colonialism in India and has become a staple in postcolonial literature..

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Salman Rushdie (സൽമാൻ റുഷ്ദി)

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Sir Salman Rushdie is an acclaimed Indian-born British and American novelist, known for allegorical novels that blend magic realism with historical fiction. His work frequently examines the connections and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations..

Midnight’s Children, allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centring on the inextricably linked fates of two children who were born within the first hour of independence from Great Britain. Midnight’s Children was awarded the Booker McConnell Prize for fiction in 1981. In 1993 it was chosen as the best Booker Prize novel in 25 years.

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Victor Hugo (വിക്ടർ ഹ്യൂഗോ)

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Victor Hugo was a celebrated French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, born in 1802 and died in 1885. His most famous works include the novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables. Beyond his literary contributions, he was also a statesman and human rights activist who became more politically left-leaning over his lifetime.

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Gabriel José García Márquez (ഗബ്രിയേൽ ജോസ് ഗാർസിയ മാർക്വേസ്)

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In 1965, Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer living in Mexico City. He was mostly unknown beyond literary circles in Mexico and Colombia. For almost two decades, he struggled to become a full-time fiction writer. In 1967, the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cien años de soledad] and its ensuing international success transformed its author into one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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Leo Tolstoy (ലിയോ ടോൾസ്റ്റോയ്)

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Rabindra Nath Tagore ( രബീന്ദ്ര നാഥ് ടാഗോർ)