AWARDS AUGUST 2014

AWARDS AUGUST 2014

• Rushdie: Salman Rushdie has received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, Denmark’s most important literature accolade, the organization behind the prize said on 17th August. The literature prize, which includes 500,000 Danish kronor (€67,000), is awarded every two years to commemorate Hans Christian Andersen, the prolific 19th-century writer of plays, travelogues, novels and poems. In 2012, the prize was given to Chilean author Isabel Allende. Other writers to have received the accolade include J.K. Rowling and Paulo Coelho.
  The Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award is a Danish literary award established in 2010. It is awarded bi-annually to a living author whose work resembles Hans Christian Andersen. It is one of the bigger literary prizes with the winner receiving kr 500,000 (£60,000, or approximately $90,000). The winner receives a bronze sculpture "The Ugly Duckling" by sculptor Stine Ring Hansen.
  
  Paulo Coelho is listed for 2007 even though the award was not established until 2010. This is because in 2007 Coelho was presented with an honorary award by the city of Odense that was so well received the organizers of the ceremony decided to make it an annual affair and thus the idea for the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award was born, the first official award given in 2010 but Coelho's honorary award is also listed by the award organizers
  
  Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is
  
  Muzzaffar Ali: Noted filmmaker and poet Muzaffar Ali was conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award on 20th August. The award, instituted by the All-India Congress Committee in honour of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was presented to Mr. Ali by AICC president Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Jawahar Bhawan.
  
• Recognition for Indian origin professor in Mathematics
  Prestigious Fields Medal, touted as the Nobel Prize in Maths was declared. The medals will be presented in Seoul at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years.
  
  A mathematician of Indian-origin Manjul Bhargava has won the prestigious Fields Medal, a Canadian-American professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was among four winners of the celebrated award. Mr Bhargava is awarded a Fields Medal for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bind the average rank of elliptic curves, according to the award citation. The IMU website says Mr Bhargava's work in number theory has had "a profound influence" on the field. 
  • Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani, who works in the US, has become the first ever female winner of the Fields Medal.
  • The other winners of the prize are Prof Martin Hairer from the University of Warwick, UK
  • Dr Artur Avila, a Brazilian mathematician who earned his PhD in dynamical systems at the age of 21.
  The Fields Medal, established by Canadian mathematician John Fields, is regarded as akin to a Nobel Prize for maths and comes with a 15,000 Canadian dollar (£8,000) cash prize.
  
• Global South Award to Sunil Kumar
  The International Political Science Association has honored Delhi University professor Dr. Sunil Kumar with the Global South Award "in recognition of outstanding work on the politics of the developing world". Kumar, an Associate Professor in Political Science Department of Shyam Lal College (evening), has bagged the award for his paper titled "Changing Landscape of Electoral Democracy and Political Demography: A Study of 2014 General Elections in India.”
  
• Magsaysay Awards declared
  (Magsaysay awards, declared, Asia’s Nobel Prize)
  Six people have been selected for the Magsaysay Award, for this year. This is an annual award established by Philippines; this award is given for those who work for integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered to be Asia's Nobel Prize. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.
  This year award winners
  • Hu shuli – Journalist from China
  • Wang Canfa – Lawyer, China
  • Saur Marlina Manurung-Anthropologist, Indonesia
  • Omara Khan Masoudi-National Museum director, Afghanistan
  • Randy Halasan – Teacher, Philippines
  • The Citizen’s Foundation –The Pakistani non-government group
  Magsaysay Award:
  The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered to be Asia's Nobel Prize.The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.