ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘Brick Lane’ is written by-
A
Virginia Woolf
B
George Eliot
C
Charles Dickens
D
Monica Ali
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Monica Ali is a bestselling writer whose work has been translated into 26 languages. She is the author of five books: Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2003 was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Monica Ali is an award-winning British novelist of Bangladeshi and English heritage, best known for her Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Brick Lane.

Detailed explanation-3: -Monica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003. Ali was voted Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists on the basis of the unpublished manuscript.

Detailed explanation-4: -She is the author of four books, Brick Lane (shortlisted for the Man Booker prize), Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, and Untold Story.

Detailed explanation-5: -Brick Lane Ali’s 2003 novel of the same name follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London at the age of 18, to marry an older man, Chanu.

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