Important Prizes & Awards of 2018 (National & International)
Here is the complete List of Important Prizes & Awards of 2018 (National & International). You can download Important Prizes & Awards of 2018 (National & International) as a PDF as well.
This List of Important Prizes & Awards of 2018 (National & International) includes all the important Prizes distributed in the year 2018 like Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize, Nobel Prize, Miss India, Miss International, Miss World, Saraswati Samman, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Jnanpith Award, etc.
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Important Prizes & Awards of 2018 (National & International)
Sl. No | Prize | Winner |
1 | Man Booker Prize | Anna Burns (Novel Milkman) |
2 | Golden Man Booker Prize | Michael Ondaatje (Novel The English Patient) |
3 | Man Booker International Prize | Olga Tokarczuk & Jennifer Croft (Novel Flights) |
4 | Miss Grand International | Clara Sosa |
5 | Miss India | Anukriti Vyas |
6 | Miss World | Vanessa Ponce |
7 | Miss Universe | Catriona Gray |
8 | Shakti Bhatt Prize | Sujatha Gidla |
9 | UEFA Men’s Player of the Year | Luka Modric |
10 | Ballon D’Or | Luka Modric |
11 | Forbes India Leadership Award | Azim Premji |
12 | Knight of the Legion of Honour (Highest Civilian Award of France) | Jawahar Lal Sarin & Azim Premji |
13 | Mexican Order of Aztec Eagle (Highest foreign award by Mexico) | Prof. SP Ganguly
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14 | UNEP Champions of the Earth Award | Narendra Modi |
15 | Nobel Prize in Medicine | James P Allison & Tasuku Honjo (for Cancer Therapy) |
16 | Nobel Prize in Physics | Gerard Mourou, Arthur Ashkin & Donna Strickland (for Laser Physics) |
17 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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George Smith, Frances Arnold & Gregory P Winter (Evolution control using enzymes & antibodies) |
18 | Nobel Prize in Economics | William Nordhaus & Paul Romer (For climate change & endogenous growth theory) |
19 | Nobel Prize in Peace | Nadia Murad & Denis Mukwege |
20 | Game Changer of the Year | Indra Nooyi |
21 | UEFA President’s Award David Beckham | David Beckham |
22 | Field’s Medal for Mathematics | Akshay Venkatesh |
23 | Ramon Magsaysay Award | Bharat Vatwani & Sonam Wangchuk |
24 | Pulitzer Prize in Music | Kendrick Lamar (for the album “Damn”) |
25 | World Food Prize | Lawrence Haddad & David Nabarro |
26 | Nikkei Asia Prize | Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak |
27 | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Andrew Sean Greer (Novel Less) |
28 | UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize | Mahmoud Abu Zeid |
29 | Abel Prize | Robert Langlands |
30 | Pritzker Architecture Prize | Balkrishna Doshi |
31 | Crystal Award | Shahrukh Khan |
32 | Gleitsman Award | Malala Yousafzai |
33 | Blue Cross Award (by ISSF) | Abhinav Bindra |
34 | V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award | Shyam Benegal |
35 | Bharat Bharti Award (highest literary award by UP Govt) | Anand Prakash (Novel 1960 Ras Siddhant) |
36 | Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman Award | Shesh Anand Madhukar
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37 | Yash Chopra Memorial Award | Asha Bhosle |
38 | Saraswati Samman | Sitanshu Yashaschandra (Poetry Vakhar) |
39 | Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award | Anushka Sharma & Ranveer Singh |
40 | Dadasaheb Phalke Award | Vinod Khanna |
41 | Swara Mauli Award | Lata Mangeshkar |
42 | KISS Humanitarian Award | Mohd. Yunus |
43 | Santokba Humanitarian Award | Kailash Satyarthi |
44 | Red Ink Award for Journalist of the Year | Faye D’Souza |
45 | Nari Shakti Puraskar | Lady Naval Officers of INSV Tarini |
46 | Polly Umrigar Award | Virat Kohli |
47 | Kalidas Samman | Anjolie Ela Menon |
48 | Mohun Bagan Ratna | Pradip Chowdhury |
49 | Legion of Merit (USA Govt.) | Dalbir Singh Suhag |
50 | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Virat Kohli & Mirabai Chanu |
51 | Sarla Puraskar | Shatrughan Yadav |
52 | India’s first Tribal Queen | Pallavi Darua |
53 | India’s first Tran’s Queen | Veena Sendre |
54 | Carnot Prize | Piyush Goyal (Union Minister) -for Rural electrification |
55 | Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony | Ram Vanji Sutar |
56 | Seoul Peace Prize | Narendra Modi |
57 | World Agricultural Prize | Prof. M.S. Swaminathan |
58 | Smita Patil Award | Anushka Sharma |
59 | Sayaji Ratna Award | Amitabh Bachchan |
60 | Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award | N Ram |
61 | Indira Gandhi Peace Prize | Centre for Science & Environment |
62 | PETA “Hero to Animals” Award | Imran Hussain |
63 | Press Freedom Award for Courage – | Swati Chaturvedi |
64 | Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year | Prema Gopalan |
65 | Hridaynath Award for Lifetime Achievement | Mohd. Khayya Hashmi |
66 | Dr. B.C. Roy National Award (Highest Medical Honour in India) | Dr. B.K. Mishra |
67 | Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award | Gopal Krishna Gandhi |
68 | UN Human Rights Award | Asma Jahangir |
69 | Jnanpith Award | Amitabh Ghosh |
70 | Sahitya Akademi Award | Sanjib Chatterjee (Bengali), Anees Salim (English), Shyam Besra (Santali), Loknath Upadhyay (Nepali) & Chitra Mudgal (Hindi). |
Important Prizes & Awards of 2018 (National & International)
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