Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize ?

Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize ? Correct Answer Arundhati Roy

The correct answer is Arundhati Roy.

Key Points

• Arundhati Roy was the first Indian to win the Prestigious Booker prize.
• She was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things
• The God Of Small Things is a Brilliant and poetic Novel.
  • It has been a best seller in India many times and with 30,000 copies sold in just 6 months and was translated into 22 languages.
• . She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. 
• The United Kingdom country gives Man Booker Prize.
• The Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to the author of the best eligible work of long-form fiction.
  • The work must be published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October of the year prior, and 30 September of the year of that award.

Additional Information

• VS Naipaul is the first person of Indian Origin to win a Booker Prize.
• Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children also won the special Booker of Bookers prize in 1993.
• Dhan Gopal Mukherji:
  • Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928.
  • He wrote numerous books and stories for children, most of which describe the animal life of India and Hindu lore and beliefs.
  • He is also known for his autobiography Caste and Outcast, which tells of life in India and America.
  • He is considered the first Asian Indian writer of significance in the United States.
  • Books - Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon, Kari the Elephant, Sandhya, Living alone.
• Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri:
  • He was an Indian writer.
  • He is the first Indian to have received the Duff Cooper Memorial Award for his work the Continent of Circe.
  • India's National Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi honored him with the Sahitya Akademi Award for his biography on Max Muller, Scholar Extraordinary.
  • In 1951, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian was one of his best works.
  • In 1990, Oxford University awarded him with Honorary Degree in Letters.
  • In 1992, he became the honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
• Aravind Adiga: 
  • Indian-origin author Aravind Adiga is best known for his Booker Prize-winning debut novel 'The White Tiger' which is currently being adapted for the big screen. 
    • Over 200,000 million copies of 'The White Tiger' have been sold worldwide.
  • His second novel is Between the Assassinations (2009), which charts the lives of the residents of an Indian town over a seven-year period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv.
  • Adiga is the fourth Indian-born author to win a Booker Prize.
  • It was shortlisted for the 2009 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize.
  • His latest work is the Last Man in Tower (2011).
  • Adiga has also won several other awards.

    • The British Book Awards- Author of the Year in 2009, the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2009, John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize in 2009, etc.