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The Nobel Prize laureates for Literature who were born in India are:
- Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai, 1865 (then Bombay in British India), who won the prize in 1907.
- Rabindranath Tagore, born in Bengal, 1861, won the prize in 1913.
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Booker Prize Winners
Country
Title
1969
P. H. Newby
Something to Answer For
1970
Bernice Rubens
United Kingdom
The Elected Member
1971
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidad and Tobago/United Kingdom
In a Free State
1972
John Berger
United Kingdom
G.
1973
J. G. Farrell
United Kingdom
The Siege of Krishnapur
1974
Nadine Gordimer
Stanley Middleton
South Africa
United Kingdom
The Conservationist
Holiday
1975
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
United Kingdom/Germany
Heat and Dust
1976
David Storey
United Kingdom
Saville
1977
Paul Scott
United Kingdom
Staying On
1978
Iris Murdoch
Ireland/United Kingdom
The Sea, the Sea
1979
Penelope Fitzgerald
United Kingdom
Offshore
1980
William Golding
United Kingdom
Rites of Passage
1981
Salman Rushdie
United Kingdom/India
Midnight's Children
1982
Thomas Keneally
Australia
Schindler's Ark
1983
J. M. Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
1984
Anita Brookner
United Kingdom
Hotel du Lac
1985
Keri Hulme
New Zealand
The Bone People
1986
Kingsley Amis
United Kingdom
The Old Devils
1987
Penelope Lively
United Kingdom
Moon Tiger
1988
Peter Carey
Australia
Oscar and Lucinda
1989
Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom/Japan
The Remains of the Day
1990
A. S. Byatt
United Kingdom
Possession: A Romance
1991
Ben Okri
Nigeria
The Famished Road
1992
Michael Ondaatje
Barry Unsworth
Sri Lanka/Canada
United Kingdom
The English Patient
Sacred Hunger
1993
Roddy Doyle
Ireland
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994
James Kelman
United Kingdom
How Late It Was, How Late
1995
Pat Barker
United Kingdom
The Ghost Road
1996
Graham Swift
United Kingdom
Last Orders
1997
Arundhati Roy
India
The God of Small Things
1998
Ian McEwan
United Kingdom
Amsterdam
1999
J. M. Coetzee
South Africa
Disgrace
2000
Margaret Atwood
Canada
The Blind Assassin
2001
Peter Carey
Australia
True History of the Kelly Gang
2002
Yann Martel
Canada
Life of Pi
2003
DBC Pierre
Australia/Mexico
Vernon God Little
2004
Alan Hollinghurst
United Kingdom
The Line of Beauty
2005
John Banville
Ireland
The Sea
2006
Kiran Desai
India
The Inheritance of Loss
2007
Anne Enright
Ireland
The Gathering
2008
Aravind Adiga
India
The White Tiger
As of now, six Indians have won the Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Kiran Desai, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Ruchir Joshi.
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Who was the last Indian woman to win the man Booker prize?
kiran desai
Who was the first person from India to win a Booker Prize?
Salmon Rushdie was the first Indian author to win the Man Booker Prize.He won the award in 1981 for the novel Midnight's Children.
Who was the first Indian woman to win a Booker prize?
Arundhati Roy won the Booker prize for her brilliant and poetic novel "The God of Small Things" in the year 1997 making her the first Indian & woman to receive the prestigious award.Kiran Desai followed her with " The Inheritance of Loss" in 2006.Aravinda Adiga received the Booker prize for "The White Tiger" in 2008 and became the first Indian male to receive the prize.
When did vikram seth win Booker prize?
Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993, but it did not win the award.
Who was given the Booker prize for the book 'half a life'?
VS Naipaul was longlisted for the Booker prize for his book, but did not win it.
Who win the Booker prize 2010?
howard jacobson
Who was the first women to win Booker Prize?
The first woman to win the Booker Prize was Bernice Rubens in 1970. Rubens won the award for her novel, The Elected Member.
Which Indian won the Man Booker Prize in 2009?
No Indian won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Instead, the winner was English novelist and short story writer Hilary Mary Mantel [b. July 6, 1952]. But a number of Indian wirters previously have been among the Prize's recipients. The last Indian author to win the prize was Aravind Adiga [b. October 23, 1974], in 2008.The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded for the best full-length novel in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth), Ireland, or Zimbabwe.
Who was given Booker prize for half a life?
Half a Life was written by V.S. Naipaul, but he didn't actually win the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Half a Life; Half a Life was longlisted for the prize. Naipaul had previously been shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize for his A Bend in the River, and won the 1971 Man Booker Prize for his In a Free State. Naipaul was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
For which book did arundathi roy win the booker prize?
The god of small things
What authors was given the Booker prize for the book half a life?
Half a Life was written by V.S. Naipaul, but he didn't actually win the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Half a Life; Half a Life was longlisted for the prize. Naipaul had previously been shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize for his A Bend in the River, and won the 1971 Man Booker Prize for his In a Free State. Naipaul was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
Did Oscar wilde get Booker prize?
No, Oscar Wilde did not receive the Booker Prize. The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award that honors the best work of fiction written in the English language. Wilde was known for his plays, essays, and novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," but he did not win the Booker Prize as it was established in 1968, long after his death in 1900.
