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BOOKS AND AUTHORS 

  1. Who won the Booker Prize for the novel Midnight's Children? a) Arundhati Roy
    b) Salman Rushdie
    c) Kiran Desai
    d) Aravind Adiga

  2. Which author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Interpreter of Maladies? a) Jhumpa Lahiri
    b) Vikram Seth
    c) Amitav Ghosh
    d) Rohinton Mistry

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Who won the Jnanpith Award in 1995? a) Ruskin Bond
    b) Girish Karnad
    c) M.T. Vasudevan Nair
    d) U.R. Ananthamurthy

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Who wrote A Suitable Boy, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize? a) Salman Rushdie
    b) Kiran Desai
    c) Vikram Seth
    d) Jhumpa Lahiri

  10. 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:

  1. b) Salman Rushdie

  2. a) Jhumpa Lahiri

  3. c) The God of Small Things

  4. c) Kiran Desai

  5. c) The White Tiger

  6. c) M.T. Vasudevan Nair

  7. b) Such a Long Journey

  8. a) Geetanjali Shree

  9. c) Vikram Seth

  10. b) U.R. Ananthamurthy

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