LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Penelope Fitzgerald
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Bernice Rubens
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Anita Brookner
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rubens’ first novel, Set On Edge, was published in 1960. In 1970, she became the first woman to win the Booker Prize (the second year of the prize’s existence), for her novel The Elected Member. As of 2021, Rubens is still the only Welsh author to have won the Booker Prize.
Detailed explanation-2: -PH Newby was the first winner of the prize in 1969 with Something to Answer For. From 2002 the prize became The Man Booker Prize when the Man Group plc came on board as sponsor, making Yann Martel the first winner of The Man Booker Prize with Life of Pi.
Detailed explanation-3: -Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.
Detailed explanation-4: -Arundhati Roy is the first Indian Citizen to win the Booker Prize.
Detailed explanation-5: -The correct answer is Arundhati Roy. She became the first Indian citizen to win Booker Prize. Hence, Option 2 is correct.