Target Exam

CUET

Subject

General Aptitude Test

Chapter

Current Affairs

Topic

Year 2024

Question:

Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf) received which of the following prestigious Award in 2024?

Options:

International Booker Prize

Screenwriters Guild of America Award

Screenwriters Guild of America Award

Pulitzer Prize

Correct Answer:

Pulitzer Prize

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) → Pulitzer Prize

Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (published by Knopf) received the Pulitzer Prize in 2024.

Specifically, it won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, announced in May 2024. The Pulitzer board described it as a “beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.”