Question

2015 Mailer Prize for Life time Achievement Prize recognising freedom of creativity has been conferred upon which of the following author?
1. Amitav Ghosh
2. Fareed Zakaria
3. Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Salman Rushdie

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Salman Rushdie

The correct answer is Salman Rushdie.

• India-born author Salman Rushdie has been awarded the prestigious 2015 Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
• He fully exercises their freedom of creativity and thrives on dialogue and debate.
• He was presented with this award by Laurie Anderson at a ceremony held at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York City.
• He has authored 12 novels including the Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses.
• His most recent novel in September 2015 is Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights.

• The Norman Mailer Prize or Mailer Prize is an American literary award established in 2009 by The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony to celebrate writers and their works.

Author	Books
Amitav Ghosh	The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, The Hungry Tide
Fareed Zakaria	The Post-American World, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, The Future of Freedom, In Defense of a Liberal Education
Jhumpa Lahiri	The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, The Lowland, Whereabouts, The Clothing of Books