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Books and authors: GK questions and answers

Great books outlive their writers. These questions match famous Indian and world books with the people who wrote them.

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20 questions on books and authors

  1. Who composed the Ramayana in Sanskrit? Valmiki Valmiki is called the Adi Kavi, the first poet.
  2. Who is traditionally regarded as the author of the Mahabharata? Ved Vyasa The Bhagavad Gita is a part of the Mahabharata.
  3. Who wrote the Ramcharitmanas? Tulsidas It tells the story of Rama in Awadhi.
  4. Who wrote "Gitanjali"? Rabindranath Tagore It won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
  5. Who wrote "The Discovery of India"? Jawaharlal Nehru He wrote it while he was held in Ahmednagar Fort jail in the 1940s.
  6. Whose autobiography is "The Story of My Experiments with Truth"? Mahatma Gandhi Gandhiji wrote it in Gujarati.
  7. Whose autobiography is "Wings of Fire"? Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Dr Kalam was the eleventh President of India and a leading space and missile scientist.
  8. Who wrote the "Arthashastra"? Kautilya (Chanakya) It is an ancient Sanskrit work on running a state and its economy.
  9. Who wrote the novel "Anandamath"? Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay The song "Vande Mataram" comes from this novel.
  10. Who wrote the Hindi novel "Godan"? Munshi Premchand It was published in 1936 and tells the story of a poor farmer, Hori.
  11. Who wrote "Malgudi Days"? R. K. Narayan Malgudi is a town that the author made up.
  12. Who is said to have written the "Panchatantra"? Vishnu Sharma It is a collection of animal fables in Sanskrit, told to teach wisdom to young princes.
  13. Who wrote the play "Abhijnanashakuntalam"? Kalidasa Kalidasa also wrote the poem "Meghaduta".
  14. Who wrote "India Wins Freedom"? Maulana Abul Kalam Azad He was the first Education Minister of independent India. His birthday, 11 November, is National Education Day.
  15. Who wrote the Harry Potter books? J. K. Rowling There are seven books in the series. The first came out in 1997.
  16. Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"? William Shakespeare Shakespeare also wrote "Hamlet" and "Macbeth".
  17. Who wrote "The Jungle Book"? Rudyard Kipling Kipling was born in Bombay. The hero of the book is the boy Mowgli.
  18. Who wrote "On the Origin of Species"? Charles Darwin It was published in 1859 and set out the theory of evolution by natural selection.
  19. Who wrote "Madhushala"? Harivansh Rai Bachchan It was published in 1935.
  20. Who compiled the Adi Granth, the first version of the Guru Granth Sahib? Guru Arjan Dev He was the fifth Sikh Guru. The work was completed in 1604.

These are well-established facts, written in our own words and last checked on 11 November 2026. If your textbook says something different, follow your textbook and tell us.

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