The novel 'Midnight's Children', which won the Booker Prize in 1981, was written by
- A.Vikram Seth
- B.Salman Rushdie
- C.Amitav Ghosh
- D.V. S. Naipaul
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children came out in 1981 and tells the story of children born at the hour of India's independence. It won the Booker Prize that year and was later voted the best of all Booker winners in two special polls, which is why it is the most asked Indian English novel of all.
Option A, Vikram Seth, wrote A Suitable Boy, a long novel of the nineteen fifties, and The Golden Gate, but he has not won the Booker. Option C, Amitav Ghosh, wrote The Shadow Lines and Sea of Poppies, and although Sea of Poppies reached the Booker shortlist, it did not win. Option D, V. S. Naipaul, did win the Booker, but in 1971 for In a Free State, and he also received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Fix the year 1981 to Rushdie.
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