First Indian Awards and Honours

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

57. Who was the first Indian to receive the Pulitzer Prize?
a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Gobind Behari Lal
c) Vijay Seshadri
d) Gwendolyn Brooks

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

59. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Mahadevi Varma
b) Amrita Pritam
c) Ashapurna Devi
d) Qurratulain Hyder

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