Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (Author) | (Book) | ||
| (A) | V. S. Naipaul | (I) | The White Tiger |
| (B) | Arundhati Roy | (II) | The Inheritance of Loss |
| (C) | Aravind Adiga | (III) | In a Free State |
| (D) | Kiran Desai | (IV) | The God of Small Things |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
All four are Indian or Indian-origin writers who won the Booker Prize with these books.
(A) V. S. Naipaul — this matches (III) In a Free State. The book won the Booker Prize in 1971; Naipaul later won the Nobel Prize in Literature (2001).
(B) Arundhati Roy — this matches (IV) The God of Small Things. Her first novel, set in Kerala, won the Booker Prize in 1997.
(C) Aravind Adiga — this matches (I) The White Tiger. His debut novel, about a driver from a poor village, won the Booker Prize in 2008.
(D) Kiran Desai — this matches (II) The Inheritance of Loss. The novel won the Booker Prize in 2006; she is the daughter of the novelist Anita Desai.