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.
The first woman to win the Booker Prize was Bernice Rubens in 1970. Rubens won the award for her novel, The Elected Member.
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It was invented in 1968 with the first award given in 1969.
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.
Rabindranath Tagore of India was the first person to receive a Nobel Prize is Asia. He received it in Literature for Gitanjali.
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Rabindranath Tagore was the first nobel prize winner in India for literature in 1913
The Booker Prize is a monetary award given to the best English-language novel published by a British, Irish or Commonwealth author. It was first established by the Booker McConnell Company. In 2002, the Man Group investment company picked up sponsorship of the prize and its name was changed to the Man Booker Prize. Some famous winners of the prize include V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood.
Hilary Mary Mantel [b. Jiuly 6, 1952] won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. She's an English novelist and short story writer.In the same year, Alice Ann Munro [b. July 10, 1931] won the international component of the same Prize. Munro is a Canadian short story writer. She's the third winner in the Prize's newly inaugurated international recognition of the body of an author's work, not just a single pivotal piece.
The first Nobel Prize was won by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941).
Rabindhranadh Tagore, the great Indian poet