Match List I with List II
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Authors | ||
| A. | Hunger | I. | Orhan Pamuk |
| B. | Golden Girl | II. | Knut Hamsun |
| C. | My Name is Red | III. | Amitav Ghosh |
| D. | Sea of Poppies | IV. | P.T. Usha |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
Each book is matched with the writer who wrote it.
A. Hunger — this matches II. Knut Hamsun. Hunger (1890) is the first major novel of the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
B. Golden Girl — this matches IV. P.T. Usha. Golden Girl is the autobiography of the sprinter P.T. Usha, the “Payyoli Express” of Indian athletics.
C. My Name is Red — this matches I. Orhan Pamuk. The novel, a murder mystery set among the miniature painters of 16th-century Istanbul, is by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate of 2006.
D. Sea of Poppies — this matches III. Amitav Ghosh. It is the first novel of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy, set on the Ibis, a ship carrying indentured labourers and convicts from Calcutta to Mauritius on the eve of the Opium Wars.