Anita Desai won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for which novel
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Fire on the Mountain
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Interpreter Of Maladies
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Untouchable
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The Zig Zag Way
Anita Desai won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 1978 for 'Fire on the Mountain,' her novel about isolation and aging in India's hills. Interpreter of Maladies is by Jhumpa Lahiri, Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand, and The Zig Zag Way is also by Desai but not the prize-winning work.
To answer this question, we need to know the novels written by Anita Desai and the specific novel for which she won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
Let's go through each option to determine the correct answer:
Option A) Fire on the Mountain - This option is correct because Anita Desai won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for this novel.
Option B) Interpreter Of Maladies - This option is incorrect because Interpreter Of Maladies is a collection of short stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri, not Anita Desai.
Option C) Untouchable - This option is incorrect because Untouchable is a novel written by Mulk Raj Anand, not Anita Desai.
Option D) The Zig Zag Way - This option is incorrect because The Zig Zag Way is a novel written by Anita Desai but not the novel for which she won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
The correct answer is A) Fire on the Mountain. Anita Desai won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for this novel.