Awards 2023 in a Nutshell for AFCAT
• The winner of International Booker Prize 2023- GEORGI GOSPODINOV
• Elephant Family environmental award - Filmmaker Kartiki Gonsalves
For extraordinary achievements in storytelling and advocacy for coexistence in the
Best Documentary Short Film 'The Elephant Whisperers'
• Global Indian Icon of 2023- MC Mary Kom
• UNESCO Asia Pacific Award 2022- Mumbai’s Byculla Railway Station
• The Grand Order of the Chain of the Yellow Star (highest civilian award of
Suriname)- President Droupadi Murmu
• 45th European Essay Prize for 'Azadi' - Arundhati Roy (For the French translation
of her compilation of essays titled "Azadi" (2021))
• German Peace Prize 2023 - Salman Rushdie
• Order of the Nile, Egypt's highest honor, by President Abdel Fattah EI-Sisi to
PM MODI
• Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2023- Priya A S (For children's iterature in
Malayalam for her 2018 novel Perumashavathe Kunjithalukal)
• 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Word Press Freedom Prize - Three Imprisoned
Iranian women journalists: Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi, and Narges
Mohammadi
• 2023 Leipzig Book Award- Maria Stepanova (For her volume of poetry entitied
"MädchenchneKleider" (Girls Without Clothes).)
• Laureus World Sportsman Of The Year 2023- Lionel Messi Argentine professional
footballer
• Highest French Civilian Honour "Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” -
N Chandrasekaran, Tata Sons Chairman
• Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award- Asha Bhosle (contribution to music)
• Order of Merit- Angela Merkel (Contribution to Germany’s politics)
• Order of Australia- Ratan Tata (Strengthening Bilateral Relations between India
and Australia)
• Global Gold Award- Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL)
• Order of the White Eagle- Volodymyr Zelensky (Highest decoration of Poland)
• Femina Miss India World 2023- Nandini Gupta
• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award- Raj Subramaniam (Highest civilian
recognition bestowed by India upon individuals of Indian descent and Indian
diaspora)
• Wildlife Conservation Award 2023- Kashmir's Aliya Mir (Remarkable contributions
to wildlife conservation)
• 2023 Abel Prize- Luis Caffarelli (for his seminal contributions to regularity theory
for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and
the Monge-Ampère equation)
• Saraswati Samman 2022- Renowned Tamil Writer Sivasankari (For her 2019
memoir, Surya Vamsam)
• Governor of the Year" for 2023 by Central Banking- RBI Governor Shaktikanta
Das (Steady leadership during challenging periods, including the collapse of a
significant non-banking company)
• Vyas Samman 2022- Gyan Chaturvedi (for his Hindi Novel PAGALKHANA)
• Pritzker Architecture Prize 2023- Sir David Chipperfield
• BBC Indian Sportswoman of The Year for 2022- Mirabai Chanu (Given to
celebrate and honour sportswomen from India who have excelled in their chosen
field of competition)
• Best film at Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival -The Kashmir Files
• Marconi Prize 2023- Hari Balakrishnan (To increasing digital inclusivity through
advanced information and communications technology)
• UNESCO Peace Prize in Ivory Coast- Angela Merkel (Outstanding contributions
to human rights and peace worldwide)
• Lifetime Achievement Honour in UK- Former PM Manmohan Singh
• Miss Universe 2022- R'Bonney Gabriel from USA
• Karthik Subramaniam of Indian Origin won the National Geographic’s
‘Pictures of the year’ 2023
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award- Journalist A.B.K. Prasad (for excellence
in Journalism)
• Bharatiya Samman Award 2023- Thiru Kumar Nadesan
• Assam highest civilian award AssamBaibhav- Dr. Tapan Saikia
• OSCARS 2023
Best original Song Naatu Naatu (RRR movie)
Composed - MM Keeravani 2023 (Padma Shri)
Lyrics -Chandrabose
Best Film: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Actress : Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Director : Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything
Everywhere All At Once
Best short documentary: The Elephant Whisperers
Director - Kartiki Gonsalves (Tamil language)
• UNESCO Award: Dr Mahendra Kumar Mishra to receive International Mother
Language Award 2023 (Odisha)
• Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 to be conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur
• Dalai Lama got the 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award In Person After 64 Years.
• Ricky Kej, a musician, won his third Grammy Award for the album "Divine
Tides," which he co-wrote with rock legend Stewart Copeland.
• Table Tennis player Sharath Kamal is the sole recipient of the prestigious
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2022.
Dadasaheb Phalke
Awards 2023 →
Nobel Prize 2022
• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with
entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering
quantum information science”
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the
development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”
• The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins
and human evolution”
• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the
roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”
• The Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, and Center for Civil Liberties. The Peace Prize
laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years
promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens.
They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right
abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil
society for peace and democracy.
• Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks
and financial crises”.
Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in
three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The
Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public
affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and
education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional
and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order
and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on
the occasion of Republic Day every year.
