Q. Consider the following statements: - Orange Prize is awarded to a work of published fiction in English by a woman.
- Pulitzer Prize is awarded by the Commonwealth Foundation to a citizen of any Commonwealth country for any literary work in English.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer:
Neither 1 nor 2
Notes: Statement 1 is correct; the Orange Prize (now Women's Prize for Fiction) awards published fiction in English by women worldwide, established in 1996. Statement 2 is incorrect; the Pulitzer Prize is awarded by Columbia University in the US for work by Americans, including categories like Fiction, not by the Commonwealth Foundation (which runs Commonwealth Writers' Prize) or limited to Commonwealth citizens.