BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Who won the Booker Prize for the novel Midnight's Children? a) Arundhati Roy
b) Salman Rushdie
c) Kiran Desai
d) Aravind Adiga -
Which author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Interpreter of Maladies? a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Vikram Seth
c) Amitav Ghosh
d) Rohinton Mistry -
Which book by Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997? a) The White Tiger
b) A Suitable Boy
c) The God of Small Things
d) The Inheritance of Loss -
Who is the author of The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Booker Prize in 2006? a) Arundhati Roy
b) Salman Rushdie
c) Kiran Desai
d) Aravind Adiga -
Which book by Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008? a) The Shadow Lines
b) The Lowland
c) The White Tiger
d) Sleeping on Jupiter -
Who won the Jnanpith Award in 1995? a) Ruskin Bond
b) Girish Karnad
c) M.T. Vasudevan Nair
d) U.R. Ananthamurthy -
For which book did Rohinton Mistry win the Commonwealth Writers' Prize? a) A Fine Balance
b) Such a Long Journey
c) The Great Indian Novel
d) The Shadow Lines -
Which author won the International Booker Prize for Tomb of Sand in 2022? a) Geetanjali Shree
b) Perumal Murugan
c) Anuradha Roy
d) Shashi Tharoor -
Who wrote A Suitable Boy, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize? a) Salman Rushdie
b) Kiran Desai
c) Vikram Seth
d) Jhumpa Lahiri -
Which author received the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Samskara? a) Mahasweta Devi
b) U.R. Ananthamurthy
c) M.T. Vasudevan Nair
d) Amitav Ghosh
Answers:
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b) Salman Rushdie
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a) Jhumpa Lahiri
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c) The God of Small Things
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c) Kiran Desai
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c) The White Tiger
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c) M.T. Vasudevan Nair
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b) Such a Long Journey
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a) Geetanjali Shree
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c) Vikram Seth
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b) U.R. Ananthamurthy