Indian English Literature
Tagore, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy โ India's Nobel and Booker Prize winners in English
Key Facts
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Rabindranath Tagore: Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali; first Asian Nobel laureate
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R.K. Narayan: creator of Malgudi; Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (Booker, 1981; Booker of Bookers, 1993)
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Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (Booker Prize 1997); Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss (Booker 2006)
๐ Did you know? Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthems of both India ("Jana Gana Mana") and Bangladesh ("Amar Shonar Bangla") โ the only person to compose two different nations' anthems
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Category
English Literature
Country
๐ฎ๐ณ India
Year / Era
1935
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Tagore, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy โ India's Nobel and Booker Prize winners in English