LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS

1. Man Booker Prize 2013 -
Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries)

2. Man Booker International Prize -
Lydia Davis

3. Asia Pacific International Award -
Dr. Mujeeb Athar

4. Cecil B Demile Award -
Woody Allen

5. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 -
Malala Yousafzai

6. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace -
Nelson Mandela

7. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 -
Edward Snowden

8. Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival-
Sacro GRA (Italy)

9. Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision
Festival - Baraksat (Lebanese Documentary)

10. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -
Kevin Barry

11. INDEX Design Award -
Kavitha Shukla

12. ISRO Young Scientist Award -
Jenita Mary

13. Jnanpith Award 2012 -
Ravuri Bharadhwaja

14. Knighthood, which is the highest honour of Britain -
Anish Kapoor (sculptor).

15. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran -
Hariharan

16. 'Legend of Planet' award -
Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder)

17. Library of Congress Gershwin Award -
Carole King (first woman)

18. National Literacy Award -
Chattisgarh

19. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward -
Abdul Kalam

20. NTR National Literary Award -
Manoj Das

21. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 -
Shashi Tharoor

22. Presidential medal of freedom -
Dr. Sally Ride

23. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 -
Adam Johnson (for the novel “The Orphan Master’s son”)

24. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna -
Ranjan Sodhi

25. Saraswati Samman (2013) –
Sugathakumari

26. Skoch Group Award -
Jharkhand

27. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony -
Zubin Mehta

28. Tagore Peace Prize -
Shihab Ghanem (first Arab)

29. The Simón Bolívar National Award of Journalism 2013 -
Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan President )

30. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award -
V. Ramanathan

31. UEFA Best Player in Europe Award-
Franck Ribéry

32. UN’s Public Service Award -
Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)

33. Unique Female Leader Award -
Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)

34. United Nation's Public Service Award -
Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala).

35. US "woman of courage" award -
Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)

36. Vyas Samman (2012) –
Narendra Kohli

37. Whitley award (Green Oscar) -
Dr. Aparajita Datta

38. Women’s Prize for Fiction -
AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven)

39. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest -
Raghav Joneja

40. ParliamentarianAwards - 2012 -
Sharad Yadav