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Who Is The First Person Of Indian Origin To Win A Booker Prize

  1. Salman Rushdie

  2. Arundhati Roy

  3. Aravind Adiga

  4. Kiran Desai
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Explanation

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for 'The God of Small Things,' making her the first person of Indian origin to win this award. Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for 'Midnight's Children' but is of mixed Kashmiri and British heritage, and the question specifies 'of Indian origin' as a category.

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