Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : Amitav Ghosh
The correct answer is Amitav Ghosh.
- Amitav Ghosh is the first English writer from India who won Jnanpith Award in 2018.
- He won the Padma Shri Award in 2007.
- Shortlisted for Man Booker Asian Prize (River of Smoke) in 2012.
- Books are written by him:
- The Flood of Fire
- The Great Derangement
- Gun Island
- River of Smoke
- The Glass Palace
- The Shadow Line
- Arundhati Roy is best known for her novel ‘The God of Small Things’ which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
- The full name of author Jhumpa Lahiri is Jhumpa Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri.
- Her first novel was the 'Namesake' published in 2003.
- She won Pulitzer Prize for her debut short story collection ‘Interpreter of Maldives’ in 1999.
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