Literary Quiz

1. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Welcomes you to
Lit fest ‘19

2. Literary Quiz
On
Indian Writing in English

3. Round 1
General Round

4. She won the Sahitya Akademi
Award for her novel in 1990 and
the Padma Shri award in 2009.
Name the author.

5. This writer’s Nobel Prize was stolen
from the safety vault of the Visva-
Bharati University on 25 March
2004. Name the Writer.

6. This Writer won the National Film
Award for Best Screenplay in 1988 for
“In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones”.
Name the Author.

7. She was dropped from the 92nd edition
of the All India Marathi Literary meet
in Maharashtra after a political outfit
threatened to disrupt the event. Name
the author.

8. “This is an amazing day for me. I never
thought I would find myself on this list,
with some of the writers I most admire.”
This was tweeted by a writer after
winning the 54th Janpith award. Name
the writer.

9. Name the first playwright in English to
receive the Sahitya Akademi award.

10. It is a play based on a Kannada folk
tale told to Girish Karnad by the noted
literateur A K Ramanujan. Name the
play

11. “The Puffin Book of World Myths and
Legends” is a book meant for the
children. Name the author

12. This author a native of Kanyakumari
district (Nagercoil), is the co-founder of
Aleph Book Company, a literary
publishing firm based in New Delhi.
Name the author.

13. Turning gears. Moving from writing to
setting up an electric car project. Always
a mechanical engineer. This is the
Tweet of an Indian author. Name the
author

14. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi
Award posthumously in 1999 for his
collection of poems, The Selected Poems.

15. He returned back the Padma Bhushan
award in 1984 in protest against the
Operation Blue Star carried on by the
Indian Army at the Golden Temple in
Amritsar.

16. Round 2
INDIAN AUTHORS IN THE
INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO

17. Name the Indian author who
campaigned to succeed Kofi Annan as
the Secretary-General of the United
Nations

18. She won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2004
for social work and advocacy of non-
violence. Name the Writer

19. This author renounced his knighthood in
response to the Jallianwala Bagh
massacre in 1919. Name the Writer

20. This author was made an honorary
Commander of the Order of the British
Empire in 2001. Name the Author.

21. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
three times and received a Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1978.Name the
Writer.

22. His first novel, won the DSC Prize for
South Asian Literature, and was
shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker
Prize

23. Round 3
WRITERS AND
CONTROVERSIES

24. Anvita Bajpai accused this book of
plagiarism. The court ordered a
suspension of this book for six months
after its launch. Name the writer and
the book

25. E. K. Nayanar criticized this author’s
novel for its unrestrained description of
sexuality. Name the novel and the
author

26. This book discusses a wide range of
topics like democracy in India, Indira
Gandhi, the partition of India, and its
transition from a socialist economy to a
free market economy. Name the novel
and the author

27. He declined the Sahitya Akademi award
for his English translation of Perumal
Murugan’s Mathorubhagan. Name the
English Translation and the Translator.

28. He withdrew his novel from
consideration for the Commonwealth
Writers' Prize, citing his objections to
the term “commonwealth”. Name the
Novel and the Author.

29. This book was removed from the
curriculum of Madras University in
1984 citing its sexual content.

30. Round 4
Round 4
WRITERS IN SOCIAL
MEDIA

31. Vikas Swarup’s novel Q & A, adapted
into a film won the Best Film award at
Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards
and BAFTA Awards in 2009. Name the
movie.

32. His maiden movie appearance was in a
Vishal Bhardwaj's film based on a short
story Susanna's Seven Husbands in
2011. Name the author.

33. He provided the voice of Dr. A. P. J.
Abdul Kalam, in the audiobook of
Kalam's autobiography Wings of Fire by
Charkha Audiobooks

34. This novel of Anita Nair adapted into a
movie was awarded the 2012 National
Film Award for Best Feature Film in
English. Name the novel.

35. This writer was commissioned by the
English National Opera to write a
libretto based on the Greek legend of
Arion and the Dolphin . Name the
writer.

36. He won the National Film Award for
Best Screenplay for his screenplay of
Shyam Bengal’s movie In 1977

37. Final Round
Buzzer Round

38. The Argumentative Indian was written
by an Indian writer who won the Nobel
Prize for Economics in 1998. Name the
author.

39. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters,
won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize. Name the author.

40. Her debut novel is Ancient Promises .
Name the author

41. He is known for his works set in the
fictional South Indian town of
Malgudi. Name the author.

42. The Golden Gate is his first novel. Name
the author

43. He created a controversy by stating that
Rabindranath Tagore is a second-rate
playwright and that his plays are
"unbearable.” Name the author.

44. The Golden Threshold, The Broken
Wing, The Bird of Time are collections
of poems. Name the Poetess

45. The Paradoxical Prime Minister (2018)
is authored by---------

46. For which work did Kiran Desai win
the 2006 Man Booker Prize and 2006
National Book Critics Circle Fiction
Award

47. She launched a national political party
called Lok Seva Party. Name the
Poetess.

48. Name the first Indian writer to win the
Nobel Prize for Literature.

49. This author refused the Sahitya
Academy Award in 2006, for her
collection of essays, 'The Algebra of
Infinite Justice’

50. This novel of Anita Desai won the
Annual Guardian Children's Fiction
Prize-- a book award judged by a panel
of British children's writers. Name the
novel.

51. Name the first novel of the Shiva
Trilogy

52. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi
Award in 1983 for his poetry
collection, "Latter-Day Psalms"
Name the Poet.

53. Tie Break

54. Who is the author of Beastly Tales from
Here and There

55. Who is the author of the God of Small
Things

56. Who authored The Inheritance of Loss

57. Who authored When the River Sleeps

58. This author winner of 2006 Man Booker
was listed as “one of 20 most influential
global Indian women” by The Economic
Times in January 2015. Name the
Writer.