Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'The God of Small Things'?
Arundhati Roy wrote The God of Small Things, published in 1997 and set in Kerala. It won the 1997 Booker Prize. V. S. Naipaul won the prize in 1971 for In a Free State, and…
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Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'The God of Small Things'?
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Arundhati Roy wrote The God of Small Things, published in 1997 and set in Kerala. It won the 1997 Booker Prize. V. S. Naipaul won the prize in 1971 for In a Free State, and Kiran Desai won it in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss.
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Option A
Incorrect. Chetan Bhagat is the author of popular Indian English novels such as 'Five Point Someone' (2004) and '2 States' (2009), not 'The God of Small Things'.
Option B
Incorrect. Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul authored works such as 'A House for Mr Biswas' (1961) and 'In a Free State' (1971), not 'The God of Small Things'.
Option C
Correct. Arundhati Roy is the author of the debut novel 'The God of Small Things' (1997), which won the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction.
Option D
Incorrect. Kiran Desai authored 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard' (1998) and the 2006 Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Inheritance of Loss', not 'The God of Small Things'.
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