Which Indian author's novel 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker Prize in which year?
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
Answer: 1981
Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his novel 'Midnight's Children', a landmark work of magical realism that explores India's transition from British colonialism to independence through the lives of children born at the exact moment of independence.