Books & Authors Mixed Quiz: Set 7

Amartya Sen was awarded the prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, among them his work on social choice, on poverty and on the causes of famines.

Kerala: God's Own Country is an illustrated book on the land, people and culture of Kerala, written by Shashi Tharoor with photographs by M.F.

The Fellowship, not the annual award, is the highest honour the Sahitya Akademi confers, and its rules restrict it to twenty-one living writers at any one time.

The Emperor of Gladness, released in May 2025, is a novel by the Vietnamese-American writer and poet Ocean Vuong. Vuong was born near Saigon in 1988 and came to the United States as a child refugee.

He composed the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi in the sixteenth century, retelling the story of Rama in seven books, and it remains the most widely read work of Hindi devotional poetry.

Arundhati Roy's memoir 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' was brought out in India in September 2025 by Penguin Random House India, under its literary imprint Hamish Hamilton.

Oliver Twist, published in parts between 1837 and 1839, is his second novel and follows an orphan boy through a workhouse and the streets of London.

He was the first Indian and also the first person from Asia to be awarded a Nobel Prize in any category, and the prize brought Indian writing to the notice of readers across Europe.

A Better India: A Better World was written by N R Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, and published in 2009.

The Jnanpith Award was instituted in 1961 by Bharatiya Jnanpith, and it is regarded as the highest literary honour given in India.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya popularised the slogan Satyameva Jayate, meaning truth alone triumphs, and it was later adopted as the national motto of India.

Test Cricket: A History, published in 2025, was written by the English cricket writer and journalist Tim Wigmore.

Tomb of Sand is Daisy Rockwell's English translation of Ret Samadhi, a Hindi novel by Geetanjali Shree about an eighty year old woman who, after the death of her husband, travels to Pakistan to face the memories of Partition.

India Wins Freedom is Azad's account of the last decade of the freedom struggle, of the Cabinet Mission and of the events that led to partition.

She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956 for her Punjabi poetry collection Sunehe, meaning messages, and was the first woman to be honoured by the Akademi.

The Ramayana is accordingly called the Adi Kavya, the first poem.

The Padmavat, written in Awadhi, tells of Ratnasen of Chittor and Padmavati of Singhal and carries a Sufi meaning under the love story; Jayasi also wrote the Akhrawat.

Unaccustomed Earth, published in 2008, is her second collection of short stories and, like most of her work, deals with Bengali families settled in the United States.

The Nobel Peace Prize of 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi, who has worked for decades against child labour and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, and Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for the right of girls to go to school.

The building on Feroze Shah Road, named after Rabindranath Tagore, houses all three of India's national academies, the Sahitya Akademi for letters, the Lalit Kala Akademi for the fine arts and the Sangeet Natak Akademi for the performing arts.