56. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Booker Prize?
a) Arundhati Roy
b) Kiran Desai
c) Anita Desai
d) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Answer: a) Arundhati Roy
57. Who was the first Indian to receive the Pulitzer Prize?
a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Gobind Behari Lal
c) Vijay Seshadri
d) Gwendolyn Brooks
Answer: b) Gobind Behari Lal
58. Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) G. Sankara Kurup
b) K. Shivaram Karanth
c) Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
d) Sumitranandan Pant
Answer: d) Sumitranandan Pant
59. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Mahadevi Varma
b) Amrita Pritam
c) Ashapurna Devi
d) Qurratulain Hyder
Answer: b) Amrita Pritam
60. Who was the first Indian to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?
a) R. K. Narayan
b) Mulk Raj Anand
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Raja Rao
Answer: c) Sarojini Naidu
