Daily Current Affairs – 14/06/2021
Pulitzer Prizes award 2021
The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts were announced. It is given in the field of Journalism, Books, Drama and Music. Established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
Awardee’s list are as follows:
Sl. No. | Category | Winner |
JOURNALISM | ||
1. | Public service | The New York Times |
2. | Criticism | Wesley Morris of The New York Times |
3. | Editorial writing | Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times |
4. | International Reporting | Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News |
5. | Breaking News Reporting | Staff of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn. |
6. | Investigative Reporting | Matt Rocheleau, Vernal Coleman, Laura Crimaldi, Evan Allen and Brendan McCarthy of The Boston Globe |
7. | Explanatory Reporting | Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters |
8. | Local Reporting | Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times |
9. | National Reporting | Staffs of The Marshall Project; AL.com, Birmingham; IndyStar, Indianapolis; and the Invisible Institute, Chicago |
10. | Feature Writing | Mitchell S. Jackson, freelance contributor, Runner’s World |
11. | Commentary | Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch |
12. | Breaking News Photography | Photography Staff of Associated Press |
13. | Feature Photography | Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press |
14. | Audio Reporting | Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio |
BOOKS, DRAMA, AND MUSIC | ||
15. | Fiction | The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich |
16. | Drama | The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall |
17. | History | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton) |
18. | Biography or autobiography | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne |
19. | Poetry | Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz |
20. | General nonfiction | Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino |
21. | Music | Stride, by Tania León (Peermusic Classical) |
22. | Special Citation | Darnella Frazier, The teenager who recorded the killing of George Floyd |
French Open 2021
Novak Djokovic & Barbora Krejčíková has won the French Open 2021 tournament. Novak Djokovic defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas and with this win he got French Open title for the second time in his career this is the 19th Grand Slam title of his career. Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Republic) won French open 2021 title after defeating Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova .
List of Winners of French Open Tennis Tournament 2021
- Men’s Singles: Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
- Women’s Singles: Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Republic)
- Men’s Doubles: Pierre-Hugues Herbert (France) and Nicolas Mahut (France)
- Women’s Doubles: Barbora Krejčíková (Czech Republic) and Kateřina Siniaková (Czech Republic)
- Mixed Doubles- Desirae Krawczyk (United States) and Joe Salisbury (United Kingdom).