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The Sahitya Akademi Award Winners

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which language received the first Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955?

  1. Hindi
  2. Bengali
  3. Tamil
  4. Telugu
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the only person to have won the Sahitya Akademi Award in three different languages?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. K. Satchidanandan
  3. Mulk Raj Anand
  4. U. R. Ananthamurthy
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the most number of times?

  1. Amrita Pritam
  2. Bhisham Sahni
  3. Nirmal Verma
  4. Qurratulain Hyder
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which language has won the most number of Sahitya Akademi Awards?

  1. Hindi
  2. Bengali
  3. Tamil
  4. Telugu
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "Midnight's Children"?

  1. Salman Rushdie
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Arundhati Roy
  4. Amitav Ghosh
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the youngest author to have won the Sahitya Akademi Award?

  1. Arundhati Roy
  2. Chetan Bhagat
  3. Durjoy Datta
  4. Ravinder Singh
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The White Tiger"?

  1. Aravind Adiga
  2. Vikas Swarup
  3. Chetan Bhagat
  4. Durjoy Datta
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Inheritance of Loss"?

  1. Kiran Desai
  2. Arundhati Roy
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Vikram Seth
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Great Indian Novel"?

  1. Shashi Tharoor
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Amitav Ghosh
  4. Arundhati Roy
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Shadow Lines"?

  1. Amitav Ghosh
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Kiran Desai
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Hungry Tide"?

  1. Amitav Ghosh
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Kiran Desai
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Glass Palace"?

  1. Amitav Ghosh
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Kiran Desai
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Namesake"?

  1. Amitav Ghosh
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Kiran Desai
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "The Lowland"?

  1. Amitav Ghosh
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Kiran Desai
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "A Suitable Boy"?

  1. Amitav Ghosh
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri
  4. Kiran Desai
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