Booker Prize | MCQs

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Booker Prize: a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in Ireland or UK.

Ismail Kadare was given first booker prize in 2005.

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The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much."

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German writer Jenny Erpenbeck has been awarded the International Booker Prize 2024 for her book named 'Kairos'.

Jenny Erpenbeck won Booker Prize for her novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986.

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International Booker Prize is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize for fiction at a London ceremony on October 17, 2022 for his work, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a murdered journalist.

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the 2022 Booker Prize for fiction at a London ceremony on October 17, 2022 for his work, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a murdered journalist.

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Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction on November 19, 2020 for Shuggie Bain, the story of a boy`s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow.

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Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction on November 19, 2020 for Shuggie Bain, the story of a boy`s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow.