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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.
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.
sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist [Amitav Ghosh] which was [shortlisted] for the [Man Booker Prize] in [2008] . It is the first volume of what will be the Ibistrilogy.by:HEMANTH K
By Indian origin, do you mean Native American? The answer to that would be Saint Kateri Tekakwitha.If you are referring to Catholic saints from the country of India, that would be Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu. She is the first person of Indian origin to be canonized.
The surname Booker is of Anglo-Saxon origin and has two possible sources. The first being an occupational name for someone concerning books, generally as a scribe or binder. The second source is an occupational name for a bleacher of cloth, derived from the Middle English "bouken", which means to bleach. Among the earlier recordings in London are the christening of John, son of Rowland Booker, on July 27th 1572 and the marriage of Bartholomew Booker and Elisabeth Painter on May 1st 1622.
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Graham Booker and Anthony Booker
Educator and author Booker T. Washington was depicted on commemorative half dollars issued from 1946 to 1951.
Yael Rom was the first women pilot of IAF.
Saint Alphonsa (19 August 1910 to 28 July 1946) was a Syro-Malabar Catholic Franciscan nun who is now honored as a saint.Sister Alphonsa became the first native Indian to be canonized In 2008. Her birth name was Anna Muttathupadathu.St. Gonsalo Garcia (1556-1597) was the first person to be canonized with partial Indian origin.
The first was Booker T. Washington in 1940. Please see the Related Link below for other significant achievements by African Americans.
"Niral" is a name of Indian origin that means "unique" or "one of a kind." It is often used as a first name for boys.