Award |
Person |
Work |
Year |
First Indian to win any literary award (the Newbery Medal) in the United States |
Dhan Gopal Mukherjee |
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon |
1927 |
First Indian to win a major non-fiction award, the Duff Cooper Prize in UK. |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri |
The Continent of Circe |
1966 |
Man Booker Prize |
"The God of Small Things" |
Arundhati Roy |
1997 |
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