Question

Out of the following, which Indian has not won Pulitzer Prize?
1. Siddhartha Mukherjee
2. Gobind Behari Lal
3. Vikram Seth
4. Geeta Anand

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Vikram Seth

The correct answer is Vikram Seth

• The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States.
• It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University.

• Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, and Guardian First Book Award.
• Gobind Behari Lal was an Indian-American journalist and independence activist. He worked as a science editor for the Hearst Newspapers. In 1937, he became the first Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize.
• Geeta Anand is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who serves as dean and professor at Berkeley Journalism.  Her stories on corporate corruption won the Wall Street Journal a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, and she was the lead reporter in a series on healthcare that was a finalist in 2003.