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• The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for outstanding work in journalism and several other fields.
• It was established by Joseph Pulitzer.
• He was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher.
• The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917.
• Major categories include Journalism, Letters, Drama, and Music.
• The Pulitzer Prizes are administered by Columbia University in New York City.

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• David Szalay won the Booker Prize 2025 for his novel Flesh.
• The winner was announced on 10 November 2025 in London.
• David Szalay is a British (Hungarian-British) writer.
• He became the first Hungarian-British author to win the Booker Prize.
• Prize Money: £50,000

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About 2026 International Booker Prize

Winning Title: Taiwan Travelogue

Author: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

Translator: Lin King

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Additional Information:

The International Booker Prize is a major literary award that recognizes the best works of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

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About 2026 International Booker Prize

Winning Title: Taiwan Travelogue

Author: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

Translator: Lin King

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Additional Information:

The International Booker Prize is a major literary award that recognizes the best works of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

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German mathematician Gerd Faltings, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, became the first German researcher to win the Abel Prize.

Faltings was awarded the 2026 honor "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".

Additional Information:

The Abel Prize is one of the highest and most prestigious honors in mathematics.