Books & Authors List for Bank Exams 2017

Books & Authors List for Bank Exams 2017

Book Name	Author Name - Award Name
A Horse Walks Into a Bar	David Grossman - Man Booker International Prize 2017
for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition	Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
The Sellout	Paul Beatty - Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner
The Vegitarian	Han Kang (Author), Deborah Smith (Translator) - Man Booker International Prize 2016 Winners
Bengali poet and literary critic Shankha Ghosh was selected for the Jnanpith Award 2016	Shankha Ghosh - Jnanpith Award 2016
The Sympathizer	Viet Thanh Nguyen -Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016 Winner
Ananta Jeevanam (Novel)	Prof. Kalakaluri Enoch –2016 Moortidevi Award Winner
"Chitt-Chete"(Autobiography)	Padma Sachdev – 2015 Saraswati Samman
A monument to suffering and courage in our time	Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) - Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
Gujarati litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary was selected for the 51st Jnanpith award 2015 for his contribution to the Indian literature	Raghuveer Chaudhary -Jnanpith award 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings	Marlon James (Jamaica) -Man Booker prize 2015 Winner

• Saraswati Samman 2016 - Mahabaleshwar Sail (Konkani) - "Hawthan" (Novel)
• Vyas Samman 2016 - Surinder Verma for poetry collection "Kaatna shami ka vriksha padma-pankhuri ki dhar se"
• Jnanpith Award 2016 - Shankha Ghosh (Baengali)
• Moortidevi Award 2016 - MP Veerendrakumar (Malayalam - for his work – Hymavathabhoovil)
• Pulitzer Prize 2017 Winners (Category – Book - Author)
  • Fiction: The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
  • History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy - Heather Ann Thompson
  • Biography: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between - Hisham Matar
  • Poetry: Olio - Tyehimba Jess