Literature – True/False – GK Questions

Mark Twain published 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in 1884. It is often called the Great American Novel.

Kabir, the 15th-century mystic poet, was a disciple of the Hindu bhakti leader Ramananda.

Donna Tartt won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel 'The Goldfinch'.

Amir Khusrau, a Sufi musician and poet in the Delhi Sultanate, is traditionally credited with creating the Sitar and Tabla by modifying existing instruments.

Agatha Christie, author of 'Murder on the Orient Express' and creations like Hercule Poirot, is widely known as the Queen of Crime.

Goswami Tulsidas rewrote the Ramayana in Awadhi as 'Ramcharitmanas' in the 16th century, making it accessible to the common people.

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel 'The God of Small Things', not 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'.

Vatsyayana authored the Kamasutra, an ancient Indian Hindu text on sexuality, eroticism, and emotional fulfillment in life.

Charles Dickens published 'Oliver Twist' in 1838. It highlights the plight of orphaned children in London.

Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his mastery of the art of narrative, demonstrated in 'The Old Man and the Sea'.

Kalidasa, a Classical Sanskrit writer, is widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language, hence the comparison.

J.K. Rowling wrote the seven-volume fantasy series 'Harry Potter', which became a global phenomenon.

Leo Tolstoy, the Russian writer, authored 'War and Peace', widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems 'Gitanjali'. He was the first non-European to receive this honor.