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Google Play Users’ Choice Awards 2020

Google Announces Best Android Apps, Games of 2020 in India; Winners of Users’ Choice Awards

In India, Meditate with Wysa has been declared as the Best App of 2020 by Google and Legends of Runeterra as the Best Game of 2020.

Google Play has announced “Google Play Users’ Choice Awards 2020′ the best apps and games of year, along with the winners of the Users’ Choice Awards 2020. The lists are localised, and the winners differ across regions. Sleep stories for calm sleep – Meditate with Wysa by Touchkin has been declared as the best app of 2020 in India. Google said that the app was a standout, and a case of “utility meeting ingenuity and delight.” Legends of Runeterra by Riot Games, meanwhile, has been announced as the Best Game of 2020 in the country – a game Google believed delivered compelling, accessible, genre-defining experiences.

Users’ Choice App of 2020

And the winner is… Disney+

Users’ Choice Game of 2020

And the winner is…Spongebob: Krusty Cook-Off

Users’ Choice Movie of 2020

And the winner is…Bad Boys for Life

Users’ Choice Book of 2020

And the winner is…If It Bleeds

Last Updated: 04-Dec-2020
Source: Google

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HUGO AWARDS

HUGO AWARDS 2019 | BOOKS

The 2019 Hugo Awards were presented at the 77th Worldcon, “Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon”, in Dublin on August 18, 2019.
The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
The Hugo Awards have been termed as “among the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing”. Works that have won have been published in special collections, and the official logo of the Hugo Awards is often placed on the winning books’ cover as a promotional

BEST NOVEL
WINNER: The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal ,Tor)

BEST NOVELLA
WINNER: Artificial Condition (Martha Wells)

BEST NOVELETTE
WINNER: “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” (Zen Cho)

BEST SHORT STORY
WINNER: “A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies,” (Alix E. Harrow)

BEST SERIES
WINNER: Wayfarers (Becky Chambers)

BEST RELATED WORK
WINNER: Archive of Our Own (A Project Of The Organization For Transformative Works)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY
WINNER: Monstress, Volume 3: Haven (Marjorie Liu, Art: Sana Takeda)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION-LONG FORM
WINNER: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Screenplay: Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION-SHORT FORM
WINNER: The Good Place: “Janet(s),” (Writer: Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, Director: Morgan Sackett)

BEST EDITOR-SHORT FORM
WINNER: Gardner Dozois

BEST EDITOR-LONG FORM
WINNER: Navah Wolfe

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
WINNER: Charles Vess

BEST SEMIPROZINE
WINNER: Uncanny Magazine

BEST FANZINE
WINNER: Lady Business (Editors: Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay & Susan)

BEST FANCAST
WINNER: Our Opinions Are Correct

BEST FAN WRITER
WINNER: Foz Meadows

BEST FAN ARTIST
WINNER: Likhain (Mia Sereno)

BEST ART BOOK
WINNER: The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Ursula K. Le Guin)

LODESTAR AWARD-BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK
WINNER: Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD-BEST NEW WRITER
WINNER: Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility)

Last Update Date: 19-August-2019
Source: http://www.thehugoawards.org/

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Sakshi Sharma

THE NINE DOTS PRIZE

The Nine Dots Prize 2019

The Nine Dots Prize

The aim of the Prize is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking to address problems facing the modern world. The name of the Prize references the nine dots puzzle – a lateral thinking puzzle which can only be solved by thinking outside the box. All entrants with minimum 18 years of age and over are welcome to enter but responses and resulting book must be in English. Entrants are asked to respond to a question in 3,000 words, with the winner receiving US$100,000 to write a short book expanding on their ideas.

This year The Nine Dots Prize question was: Is there still no place like home?

WINNER: Annie Zaidi

She is a Mumbai-based freelance writer, working on fiction, scripts and columns for magazines and newspapers. She won Nine Dots Prize for her entry titled ‘Bread, Cement, Cactus’. It was a combining memoir and reportage which explores concepts of home and the belonging rooted in her experience of contemporary life in India, where migration – within the country, especially from villages to cities – is high.

Last Updated Date: 30-May-2019
Source: https://ninedotsprize.org/

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Sakshi Sharma

THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The Man Booker International Prize 2019

From 2016 the Man Booker International Prize has evolved to encourage more publishing and reading of quality fiction in translation. From this date the prize is to be awarded annually on the basis of a single book.It is an international literary award sponsored by the ‘Man Group’, which is the same organisation that gives Man Booker Prize for fiction. It is counterpart to Man Booker Prize for English-language novels. It is an annual award, given for a single work of fiction in any language. It is open to books in any language that have been translated into English and published in the United Kingdom in the last year. It carries a cash prize of 50,000 pounds (or US $64,000) for winning title, which is shared equally between author and translator. This year it was awarded at a ceremony on 21 may 2019.

NOMINEES
Jokha Alharthi for Celestial Bodies, Publisher: Sandstone Press
Annie Ernaux for The Years, Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Marion Poschmann for The Pine Islands, Publisher: Profile Books, Serpent’s Tail
Olga Tokarczuk for Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Juan Gabriel Vásquez for The Shape of the Ruins, Publisher: Quercus, MacLehose Press
Alia Trabucco Zerán for The Remainder, Publisher: And Other Stories

WINNER: Jokha Alharthi for Celestial Bodies, Publisher: Sandstone Press

Last Updated Date: 22-May-2019
Source: https://themanbookerprize.com/international

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