READING DAY/WEEK QUIZ

Who composed the Ramcharitmanas?

• Tulsidas

• Surdas

• Valmiki

• Kalidas

World Book Day is celebrated on -

• 23rd March

• 23rd April

• 23rd September

• 23rd August

National Reading Day in India is celebrated on -

• 15th June

• 21st June

• 31st May

• 19th June

Who is the only Indian to have won the Nobel Prize for literature?

• Abhijit Banerjee

• Amartya Sen

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Rudyard Kipling

Who is the first Indian citizen to have won the Booker Prize?

• Salman Rushdie

• Arundhati Roy

• Kiran Desai

• Aravind Adiga

For which novel did Salman Rushdie, an Indian born novelist win the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993 & the Best of the Booker Prize in 2008?

• The Enchantress of Florence

• The Satanic Verses

• The Moors Last Sigh

• Midnight's Children

Who won India's most prestigious literary award "Jnanpith Award" in 2019?

• Amitav Ghosh

• G Sankara Kurup

• Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

• Krishna Sobti

For which of his poems did Nand Kishore Acharya win the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi Poetry in 2019?

• हर कोई चाहता है

• कहीं नहीं मैं दिखा

• छीलते हुए अपने को

• सब जो खिला था

In whose honour is Reading Day/Week celebrated in India?

• S R Ranganathan

• P N Panicker

• P Sreeramulu

• S Radhakrishnan

Which famous author used the pseudonym Premchand for his works?

• Dhanpat Rai Srivastava

• Narayan Sanyal

• Birendra Krishna Bhadra

• Samaresh Basu