This post provides the list of Books & Literary Awards that are presented in the month of July 2020 for various PSC Exams.
Books
- The Endgame – Hussain Zaidi
- A Song of India – Ruskin Bond
- Lockdown Liaisons – Shobhaa De
- Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver – Urjit Patel
- Suraj Kade Marda Nahi (Sun Never Dies) – Baldev Singh Sadaknama
- Getting Competitive: A Practitioner’s Guide for India – R. C. Bargava
- Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India – Viral Acharya (RBI Deputy Governor)
- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography – Tenzin Geyche Tethong
Literary Awards
- Miles Franklin award – Tara June Winch ('The Yield')
- Instituted in – 1957
- Prize – $60,000
- Gabriel Marquez Award – Perumbadavam Sreedharan
- Instituted by – Sahithi
SideNotes:
- Mahaveer: The Soldier Who Never Died (2019) which tells a patriotic tale of the Indo-Chinese battle of Nuranang in 1962, authored by Rupa Srikumar & A.K. Srikumar became a best seller in the month of July.
- The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World – Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (expected on Septemeber 2020)
- Minister of External Affairs of India – Subrahmanyam Jaishankar