Books and Authors

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  1. 1. His 1988 novel led to Ayatollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa calling for his death (6,7)
  2. 7. Which author wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’? (8,7)
  3. 9. The author of the famous autobiographical novel ‘I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings’ (4,7)
  4. 10. Mary Shelley, the wife of a famous poet wrote this (12)
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  1. 2. This English writer with 66 detective novels is the best-selling author of all time (6,8)
  2. 3. Tolstoy called this his first true novel (4,8)
  3. 4. One of the first widely known stories of this famous poet-author was titled ‘The Happy Prince’ (5,5)
  4. 5. This prolific US author wrote ‘The Shining’ (7,4)
  5. 6. This book written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell has won the 2022 International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction (4,2,4)
  6. 8. John le Carré’s book posthumously published in 2021 (10)