LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS

1. Man Booker Prize 2013 -  Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries)

2. Man Booker International Prize - Lydia Davis

3. Asia Pacific International Award - Dr. Mujeeb Athar

4. Cecil B Demile Award -  Woody Allen

5. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 -  Malala Yousafzai

6. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace -  Nelson Mandela

7. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 - Edward Snowden

8. Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival -  Sacro GRA (Italy)

9. Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision Festival - Baraksat (Lebanese Documentary)

10. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Kevin Barry

11. INDEX Design Award - Kavitha Shukla

12. ISRO Young Scientist Award -  Jenita Mary

13. Jnanpith Award 2012 -  Ravuri Bharadhwaja

14. Knighthood, which is the highest honour of Britain -  Anish Kapoor (sculptor).

15. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran -  Hariharan

16. 'Legend of Planet' award - Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder)

17. Library of Congress Gershwin Award -  Carole King (first woman)

18. National Literacy Award -  Chattisgarh

19. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward -  Abdul Kalam

20. NTR National Literary Award -  Manoj Das

21. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 -  Shashi Tharoor

22. Presidential medal of freedom -  Dr. Sally Ride

23. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 -  Adam Johnson (for the novel “The Orphan Master’s son”)

24. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Ranjan Sodhi

25. Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari

26. Skoch Group Award -  Jharkhand

27. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony -  Zubin Mehta

28. Tagore Peace Prize -  Shihab Ghanem (first Arab)

29. The Simón Bolívar National Award of Journalism 2013 -  Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan President )

30. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award -  V. Ramanathan

31. UEFA Best Player in Europe Award -  Franck Ribéry

32. UN’s Public Service Award - Omen Chandi (Kerala CM)

33. Unique Female Leader Award -  Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)

34. United Nation's Public Service Award -   Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala).

35. US "woman of courage" award -  Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim)

36. Vyas Samman (2012) –  Narendra Kohli

37. Whitley award (Green Oscar) -  Dr. Aparajita Datta

38. Women’s Prize for Fiction -  AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven)

39. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest -  Raghav Joneja

40. Parliamentarian Awards - 2012 - Sharad Yadav