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Books and Authors General Knowledge Multiple Choice Questions with Answers
Chitrangada and Gitanjli was written by Rabindra Nath Tagore. Rabindra Nath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.
'We Indians' is written by Khushwant Singh. He analyses the good and the bad of Indian character in this unusual and timely book.
Edwina Mountbatten - A Life of Her Own.
Mahatma Gandhi
US President Barack Obama has named veteran diplomat David Hale as the next Ambassador to Pakistan. David Hale is a US Ambassador to Lebanon since 2013. He would replace Richard Oslon who has been the Ambassador to Pakistan since 2012. Obama nominated him for the post on March 10, 2015.
Geoffrey Chaucer is known as 'the father of English poetry' and his burial in Westminster Abbey begins the tradition of 'poet's corner', last resting place of England's most celebrated writers.
Spanish writer Javier Moro's 'The Red Sari', controversial, unauthorized biography of Congress President Sonia Gandhi is being released by Roli Books in India.
Kiran Bedi released a comic book titled Kiran Bedi — Kaise Bani Top Cop at a thanksgiving event organised in her Vidhan Sabha constituency Krishna Nagar, Delhi. The book is penned down by her sisters, Reeta Peshawaria Menon and Anu Peshawaria.
The Naked Face is the first novel (1970) written by Sidney Sheldon. It was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. In 1983 the novel was adapted as a film directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Roger Moore and Rod Steiner.
The Gathering Storm is the first volume of The Second World War (book series), a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill.