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