Daily Current Affairs / Susanna Clarke Wins Fiction 2021 Women's Award for Her Novel 'Piranesi'
Category : Awards Published on: September 14 2021
· Writer Susanna Clarke won the Women's Award for Fiction 2021 for her novel 'Piranesi'.
· Novelist and Booker-winner Bernardine Evaristo chaired this year's Women's Prize Judging Panel.
· 'Piranesi' is narrated by a man living in a labyrinthine, statue-filled house – except for one visitor known as another – that contains his entire universe.
· Susanna Clark: English author best known for her debut novels Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
Important facts
About Nobel Prize
v The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes which, according to Sir Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are "given to those who, during the previous year, have provided the greatest benefit to mankind." Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.
v First Prize: 1901
2020 Winner List
Lewis Gluck - Literature
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Andrea M. Gage - Physics
Roger Penrose - Physics
Reinhard Genzel – Physics
Michael Houghton - Physiology or Medicine
Charles M. Rice - Physiology or Medicine
Harvey J Alter - Physiology or Medicine
Jennifer Doudna - Chemistry
Emmanuel Charpentier - Chemistry
Robert B. Wilson - Economic Sciences
Paul Milgrom - Economic Sciences
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