Literary | MCQs

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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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• The World Book Capital (WBC) is an initiative of UNESCO which recognises cities for promoting books and fostering reading for a year starting on April 23rd, World Book and Copyright Day.

• World Book Capital 2020: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
  
• World Book Capital 2021: Tbilisi (Georgia)

• World Book Capital 2022: Guadalajara (Mexico)

• World Book Capital 2023: Accra (Ghana)

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John Ruskin coined the term "Pathetic Fallacy"

John Ruskin coined the term in the third volume of his work Modern Painters (1856)

The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. 

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• William Wordsworth, born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, England.
• He is renowned as the Poet of Nature for his profound appreciation and depiction of the natural world in his poetry.
• He died on April 23, 1850.

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John Keats, an English poet used extensive alliteration.

John Keats died at the age of 25 in 1821.

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Baba Farid was born in 1188 (573 AH) in Kothewal

•  Baba Fareed was a Sunni Muslim and was one of the founding fathers of the Chishti Sufi order.
• The Shrine of Baba Farid is a 13th-century Sufi shrine located in Pakpattan, Pakistan
• Baba Fareed Shaker Ganj' was the first poet of: Punjabi

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List of Allama Iqbal Persian Books

1.    the Asrar-i-Khudi اسرارِ خودی (Secrets of the Self)

2.    Rumuz-i-Bekhudi رموزِ بیخودی (Hints of Selflessness)

3.    the Payam-e-Mashriq پیامِ مشرق (The Message of the East)

4.    The Zabur-e-Ajam زبورِ عجم (Persian Psalms), published in 1927,

5.    the Javed Nama جاوید نامہ (Book of Javed), published in 19232

6.    Pas Chih Bayed Kard Ay Aqwam-e-Sharq پس چہ باید کرد اے اقوامِ شرق

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List of Allama Iqbal English books

1.    The Development of Metaphysics in Persia

2.    The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam,