Question

Who among the following was the first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize?
1. Anita Desai
2. Amrita Pritam
3. Arundhati Roy
4. Sarojini Naidu

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Arundhati Roy

The correct answer is Arundhati Roy.

• The first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize is Arundhati Roy. 
• Suzanna Arundhati Roy was born on  24 November 1961, She is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things.
• Arundhati Roy won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things.
• Arundhati Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996. 
• The book is semi-autobiographical and a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam. The publication of The God of Small Things catapulted Roy to international fame.
• It received the 1997 Booker Prize for Fiction and was listed as one of The New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
• Arundhati Roy won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

Name	Description
Anita Desai	Anita Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist, As a writer, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.  She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel "Fire on the Mountain", from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. She won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.
Amrita Pritam	Amrita Pritam (31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist, and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. She became the first woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her "magnum opus", a long poem, "Sunehade", later she received the Bharatiya Jnanpith, one of India's highest literary awards, in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas ("The Paper and the Canvas").
Sarojini Naidu	Sarojini Naidu (13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet. Her first book of poems was published in London in 1905, titled The "Golden Threshold". She is also known as the 'Nightingale of India'.