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Literary Stars
Many Indian writers have made significant contribution to literature and have received worldwide
acclaim and honour for their literary talents.
Read the descriptions and write the names of the literary stars. You may use the Help Box.
1 _____________________ received the Pulitzer prize for Fiction for
Interpreter of Maladies in 2000.
2 _____________________ received the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for
The White Tiger.
3 _____________________ received the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for
Midnight’s Children. He was also awarded the James Tait Memorial
Prize in 1981 and the Booker of Bookers in 2008.
4 _____________________ received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for
The Room on the Roof at the age of seventeen. He was also awarded
the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999, and the
Padma Bhushan in 2014.
5 _____________________ received the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for
The Inheritance of Loss.
6 _____________________ received the Nobel Prize for Literature in
2001. He has also received the Man Booker Prize for In a Free State.
7 _____________________ received the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1913 for Gitanjali. He also wrote India's national anthem.
8 _____________________ was the first Indian to receive the Man
Booker Prize for The God of Small Things in 1997.
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Kiran Desai, Sir V.S. Naipaul, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri,
Rabindranath Tagore, Aravind Adiga, Salman Rushdie, Ruskin Bond
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