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  • Who has been selected for the prestigious 2016 Jnanpith Award ?


  • Options
  • A. Ravuri Bharadwaja
  • B. Shankha Ghosh
  • C. Kedarnath Singh
  • D. Chandrashekara Kambara

  • Correct Answer
  • Shankha Ghosh 

    Explanation

    Shankha Ghosh, the outstanding Bengali writer, commentator and academician, has been chosen for the prestigious 52nd version of the Jnanpith Award (2016) by the Government of India (GoI) for his lovely phrase and tries different things with different beautiful structures check his significance as an imaginative ability.The Jnanpith Award is presented every year to a literary figure for their outstanding contribution in literature. The honor conveys a reference, prize cash of Rs. 12 lakh and a bronze imitation of Goddess Saraswati.He turned into the sixth Bengali creator to win India's most astounding artistic honor after Mahasweta Devi, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Ashapurna Devi, Subhash Mukhopadhyay and Bishnu Dey.

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