Who is the author of 'Sleeping on Jupiter', a novel longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015?

Correct — B. Sleeping on Jupiter (2015) is the third novel of Anuradha Roy. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015 and won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2016.

Her later novel All the Lives We Never Lived (2018) won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2022. The author the stem asks for is Anuradha Roy → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Kiran Desai — Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss. Sleeping on Jupiter is Anuradha Roy's novel, not hers.
• (c)
  Jhumpa Lahiri — Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies, and The Lowland was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker. She did not write Sleeping on Jupiter.
• (d)
  T.N. Ninan — T.N. Ninan is an economic journalist, long the editor of Business Standard. His 2015 book The Turn of the Tortoise is non-fiction on India's economy and politics, not a novel.

Anuradha Roy is an Indian novelist, journalist and editor. Her novels are An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008), The Folded Earth (2011), Sleeping on Jupiter (2015), All the Lives We Never Lived (2018) and The Earthspinner (2021).

With her husband Rukun Advani she founded Permanent Black, a publishing house for academic writing, in 2000.

Key facts

• Sleeping on Jupiter (2015) by Anuradha Roy was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
• It won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2016.
• Anuradha Roy won the Sahitya Akademi Award (2022) for All the Lives We Never Lived.
• Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss.

Common traps

• Picking Kiran Desai because hers is the Booker name you know: she won in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss.
• Confusing Anuradha Roy with Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker for The God of Small Things.

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