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Detailed explanation-1: -Smriti Irani’s debut novel is Lal Salaam, published by Westland publishers in 2021. It is inspired by the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada and the role of the central police forces in insurgencies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Author Ian Watt, and many others for that matter, usually credit Daniel Defoe as being the author of the first English novel (Chapt. 3). The first novel is usually credited to be Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which was first published in 1719 (Lee).

Detailed explanation-3: -Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji, an early 11th-century Japanese text, has sometimes been described as the world’s first novel based on its early use of the experience of intimacy in a narrative form, but there is considerable debate over this - there were certainly long fictional prose works that preceded it.