PEN / Nabokov Award
- March 1, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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PEN / Nabokov Award
Subject: International relations
Section: MSc
PEN/Nabokov Award
Context: On February 27, PEN America announced that Hindi short story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist Vinod Kumar Shukla is the recipient the 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
Concept:
PEN/Nabokov Award
- The PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature is conferred annually on an author whose body of work is of “enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship.”
- Previous winners include Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Anne Carson, M NourbeSe Philip, Sandra Cisneros, Edna O’Brien, and Adonis
Vinod Kumar Shukla
- Shukla has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi award, the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize, and the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year award, among others.
- His writing is known for its “intimate evocations of rural and small-town life” while being experimental in style and genre.
- Some of Shukla’s celebrated works in translation are the novels A Window Lived in the Wall and A Silent Place, and the short story collection Blue Is Like Blue.