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Salman Rushdie's most-celebrated Booker-winning novel is:Read the answer and worked solution →Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Salman Rushdie's most-celebrated Booker-winning novel is:

  1. A Suitable Boy
  2. The God of Small Things
  3. Midnight's Children
  4. Train to Pakistan
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Correct answer: C. Midnight's Children

1. Midnight's Children (1981) won the Booker Prize in 1981. 2. It later won the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker. 3. Rushdie is named in the brief's Indian English bucket. _Source: Coverage brief — Indian English canon — "Indian English Literature — ... Rushdie"_

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Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' won the Booker in:

  1. 2001
  2. 1965
  3. 1981
  4. 1971
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Correct answer: C. 1981

1. Midnight's Children won the 1981 Booker. 2. It later won the Booker of Bookers (1993). 3. It won the Best of the Booker (2008). _Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Indian English Literature — ... Rushdie"_

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