Explanation

• The British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the communal award in 1932 at the end: of 3rd Round Table Conference
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• The Communal Award was created by British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932.
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Explanation

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar and active in England, “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”.

Explanation

Pulitzer Prize is a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.

First Pulitzer prize was awarded in 1917.

Pulitzer Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.

Explanation

• From 1901 to 2022, the United States received the most 400 Nobel Prizes.
• The country with the second highest number of Nobel Prizes is the United Kingdom with 138.
• Germany has  the second highest award at 111 and is also the third country with over 100 Nobel laureates.
  

Explanation

There are six categories of the Nobel Prize:

Peace

Physics

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

Economics

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All Nobel price was Firstly invented by Alfred Nobel in 1901 except Nobel Prize in Economics was invented by Sveriges Riksbank  in 1968

History

Alfred Nobel (a Swedish chemist) initiated Nobel Prize in:

Peace

Physics

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Literature

In 1901, Nobel Prize was first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden,

expected the Peace Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.

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Nobel Prize in Economics started in 1968

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize

Explanation

Know about Oscar Awards

Oscar Awards also known: Academy Award 

Oscar Awards: most prestigious award of Hollywood 

Held: annually 

Organizer: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science 

First Oscar Awards: 16 May 1929

First ceremony held: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

First Oscar award had: 12 categories 

Best Actor of First Oscar Award: Emil Jannings (German Actor)

Best Actress of First Oscar Award: Janet Gaynor (American Actress)

President of first Oscar Awards: Douglas Fairbanks (American Actor)

Oscar Awards broadcast to the general public for the first time through radio: 1930 

In 1953, Radio was replaced by television for the first time and the ceremony was televised.

Objective: To honour the participating artists of the motion picture industry  

Current Oscar award has: 24 categories

Explanation

Morarji Desai is the only Indian who received the highest civilian awards from both India and Pakistan, the Bharat Ratna and Nishaan-e-Pakistan.

He was the 4th PM (1977-1979) of India.

He was the second deputy prime minister of India.

He was the first non-congress Indian Prime Minister.

Explanation

Know about Oscar Awards

Oscar Awards also known: Academy Award 

Oscar Awards: most prestigious award of Hollywood 

Held: annually 

Organizer: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science 

First Oscar Awards: 16 May 1929

First ceremony held: Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

First Oscar award had: 12 categories 

Best Actor of First Oscar Award: Emil Jannings (German Actor)

Best Actress of First Oscar Award: Janet Gaynor (American Actress)

President of first Oscar Awards: Douglas Fairbanks (American Actor)

Oscar Awards broadcast to the general public for the first time through radio: 1930 

In 1953, Radio was replaced by television for the first time and the ceremony was televised.

Objective: To honour the participating artists of the motion picture industry  

Current Oscar award has: 24 categories

Explanation

• Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won an Oscar Award for the second time for her documentary movie titled "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness".
• Her film "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" won the Humanitarian Award at the RiverRun International Film Festival and the Bentonville Film Festival.

Explanation

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

Jon Fosse is from Norway.