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- Who wrote the "Arthashastra"? — Chanakya (Kautilya/Vishnugupta).
- For which work did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)? — Gitanjali.
- Who is the author of "The God of Small Things," and which prize did it win? — Arundhati Roy; Booker Prize, 1997.
- Who wrote "Hind Swaraj"? — Mahatma Gandhi.
- Which Indian author won the International Booker Prize in 2022, and for which (translated) novel? — Geetanjali Shree, for Tomb of Sand (translated from Hindi's Ret Samadhi).
- Who authored "Wings of Fire," the autobiography of a former Indian President? — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (with Arun Tiwari).
- Name India's highest literary award and its first recipient. — Jnanpith Award; first given to G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam, 1965).
- Who wrote "Anandamath," which contains the song "Vande Mataram"? — Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
- Which classical Sanskrit poet-dramatist authored "Abhijnanasakuntalam"? — Kalidasa.
- Who wrote "Discovery of India" and where was it primarily composed? — Jawaharlal Nehru; largely written during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort (1944).
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