Which of the following statements about Vijay Seshadri is/are correct

Which of the following statements about Vijay Seshadri is/are correct ?

He is an India-born US poet
He won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in the year 2014 for his book ‘3 Sections’
He is the first Indian origin person to bag the Pulitzer Prize

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1 only

1 and 2 only

2 and 3

1, 2 and 3

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Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Vijay Seshadri is indeed an India-born poet who later emigrated to the US. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2014 for his collection titled ‘3 Sections’.

Vijay Seshadri is an Indian-American poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2014 for his work ‘3 Sections’.

Statement 3 is incorrect. Vijay Seshadri was not the first person of Indian origin to win a Pulitzer Prize. Several individuals of Indian origin had won Pulitzer Prizes before him in various categories, including Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, 2000), Geeta Anand (Explanatory Reporting, 2003, as part of a team), and Siddhartha Mukherjee (General Nonfiction, 2011), among others.

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