Multiple choice general knowledge

Who is the first Booker prize winner from India?

  1. Arundhati Roy

  2. Salman Rushdie

  3. R.K Narayanan

  4. Anita Brookner
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Explanation

Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for 'Midnight's Children,' making him the first writer of Indian origin to receive this prestigious award. While Rushdie was born in Mumbai, he was primarily a British citizen at the time. Arundhati Roy won in 1997, and R.K. Narayan was nominated multiple times but never won.

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