Question

Which of the following 2017 Sahitya Akademi awardees donated his prize money to mother of Junaid Khan, who was killed in a train in June 2017?
A) Shiv Mehta
B) K P Ramanunni
C) Afsar Ahmed
D) Jayanta Madhab Bora

Answer 1

(b) K P Ramanunni

K P Ramanunni from Kerala was conferred with the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam literature for his novel “Daivathinte Pusthakam”, which deals with India’s communal situation, at a function in New Delhi on February 12, 2018. However, Ramanunni donated his prize money of Rs 1 lakh to the mother of Junaid Khan, the teen stabbed to death on a Mathura-bound train from New Delhi in June 2017.

Answer 2

B) KP RUKMINI WAS AWARDED