Indian Literature Questions Answers

61. Which foundation instituted the Saraswati Samman annual award?

• A) K.K. Birla Foundation
• B) TATA Foundation
• C) Smile Foundation
• D) Mahatma Gandhi Foundation

62. Who was the first Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize?

• A) Jhumpa Lahiri
• B) Geeta Anand
• C) Gobind Behari Lal
• D) Siddhartha Mukherjee

63. In which category did Jhumpa Lahiri win the Pulitzer Prize?

• A) Public Service
• B) Fiction
• C) Poetry
• D) Drama

64. Who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for the book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'?

• A) Siddhartha Mukherjee
• B) Geeta Anand
• C) Jhumpa Lahiri
• D) Gobind Behari Lal

65. Which Indian writer was appointed by Former U.S. President Barack Obama to the U.S. President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities?

• A) Arundhati Roy
• B) V.S. Naipaul
• C) Jhumpa Lahiri
• D) Salman Rushdie

66. In which year did Salman Rushdie cancel his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival due to threats to his life?

• A) 2008
• B) 2010
• C) 2011
• D) 2012

67. In which year did Indian-origin writer V.S. Naipaul win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

• A) 1999
• B) 2001
• C) 2005
• D) 2007

68. What is the nationality of V.S. Naipaul?

• A) Canadian
• B) British
• C) Trinidadian
• D) Australian

69. In which year was V.S. Naipaul awarded the honorary fellowship of the Sahitya Akademi?

• A) 2007
• B) 2010
• C) 2012
• D) 2013

70. Who was the first elected fellow of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship?

• A) C. Rajagopalachari
• B) D.R. Bendre
• C) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
• D) Gopinath Kaviraj