books & authors section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Kavyadarshana is written by Dandin

Answer: (b)

‘When the River Sleeps' is a novel by Easterine Kire. It won The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2015. First published by Zubaan in 2014, the novel is about the lives and hearts of the people of Nagaland: the rituals and beliefs, their reverence for the land, their close-knit communities with their natural surroundings.

Answer: (b)

Meghdoot (literally “cloud messenger”) is a lyric poem written by Kalidasa, considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets. A poem of 111 stanzas, it was first translated into English by Horace Hayman Wilson.

Answer: (b)

Buddhacharita is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by A?vaghosha, composed in the early second century CE.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (a)

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.

It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.