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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
  2. Who is traditionally regarded as the author of the Mahabharata? Ved Vyasa
  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
  6. Whose autobiography is "The Story of My Experiments with Truth"? Mahatma Gandhi
  7. Whose autobiography is "Wings of Fire"? Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  8. Who wrote the "Arthashastra"? Kautilya (Chanakya)
  9. Who wrote the novel "Anandamath"? Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  10. Who wrote the Hindi novel "Godan"? Munshi Premchand
  11. Who wrote "Malgudi Days"? R. K. Narayan
  12. Who is said to have written the "Panchatantra"? Vishnu Sharma
  13. Who wrote the play "Abhijnanashakuntalam"? Kalidasa
  14. Who wrote "India Wins Freedom"? Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  15. Who wrote the Harry Potter books? J. K. Rowling
  16. Who wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet"? William Shakespeare
  17. Who wrote "The Jungle Book"? Rudyard Kipling
  18. Who wrote "On the Origin of Species"? Charles Darwin
  19. Who wrote "Madhushala"? Harivansh Rai Bachchan
  20. Who compiled the Adi Granth, the first version of the Guru Granth Sahib? Guru Arjan Dev

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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