QuiZ for Canadian Literature

Canadian Literature

1. Dr.A.Ramasubbiah Assistant Professor of English Mannar T hirumalai Naicker College Madurai Master Quiz

2. ROUND - I Who is Who ?

3. Manil Suri Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels All Named For Hindu gods . He won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for The Death of Vishnu . His second novel, The Age of Shiva (2008), was listed as one of the best books of the decade

4. Romesh Gunesekera A Sri Lankan-born British author, who was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel Reef in 1994 He has written books like Heaven's Edge , The Match , Noon Tide Toll

5. Nayomi Munaweera Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors , which won Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region in 2013, and What Lies Between Us (2016), which won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award. Island of a Thousand Mirrors was her debut novel and was published in South Asia in 2012. It tells the story of the conflict between two main ethnic groups in Sri Lanka from the perspective of two girls who witness the horror. The civil war officially began in 1983 and continued until 2009 .

6. Bapsi Sidhwa Bapsi Sidhwa is an American–Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi descent. She describes herself as a "Punjabi- Parsi -Pakistani” Known for highly acclaimed novels like The Crow Eaters, Water, Ice-Candy Man

7. Amit Chaudhuri A novelist, poet, musician and literary critic. He was born in Calcutta in 1962 and grew up in Bombay. Author of novels like Afternoon Raag , Strange and Sublime Address etc.

8. Sorraya Khan The Pakistani author of  Noor ,  Five Queen’s Road,  and City of Spies   which received the Best International Fiction Book Award, Sharjah International Book Fair, 2015 . She was awarded a US Fulbright Research Grant to conduct research in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and received a Malahat Review Novella Prize for what became a window into  City of Spies.

9. Adib Khan Adib Khan is an Australian novelist of Bangladeshi origin. Khan started writing in his 40s and has published five novels. His first novel, Seasonal Adjustments won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Author of works such as Spiral Road , The Story Teller , Homecoming etc.

10. Michael Ondaatje Srilankan born Canadian writer His first collection of poetry, The Dainty Monsters (1967), is a series of lyrics that juxtapose everyday life with mythology. Author of In the Skin of a Lion, Anil’s Ghost, The English Patient etc.

11. U.R . Ananthamurty Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He is one of the pioneers of the Navya movement.

12. Mohsin Hamid British Pakistani Novelist and brand consultant. Hamid spent most of his childhood in Lahore, Pakistan, before attending college at Princeton, where he studied with Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates.

13. ROUND – II QUOTES

14. “When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson. Bhanggi ” Faiqa Mansab , Pakistani   This House of Clay and Water

15. “Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?” Bharati Mukherjee ,  Desirable Daughters

16. “One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies ” Kanza Javed ,  Pakistani Ashes, Wine and Dust

17. “When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness .” Khaled Hosseini , Afghan- American The Kite Runner

18. “For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition ” Kamila Shamsie , Pakistani Home Fire

19. “And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside .” Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

20. “We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.” Salman Rushdie,  The Ground Beneath Her Feet

21. The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” Kiran Desai,  The Inheritance of Lo ss

22. “If we set a norm, there will always be a way to violate it. The norm is what looks clear and bright to us. The violation is hidden and hushed.”   Perumal Murugan ,  Trial by Silence

23.   C.S . Lakshmi,  Fish in a Dwindling Lake Because we live this life through the real and the imagined, memory and forgetfulness.’ That”

24. ROUND – II I Guess the Author

25. Shashi Tharoor

26. Tahira Naqvi

27. Mohsin Hamid

28. Amit Chaudhuri

29. Romesh Gunesekera

30. Sara Suleri

31. Punyakante Wijenaike

32. Upamanyu Chatterjee

33. Kamila Shamsie

34. Osama S iddique

35. ROUND – IV Identify the EPIC

36. The  Hamzanama  or  Dastan-e-Amir Hamza  -

37. ShishupalaVadha

38. Buddhacharita

39. Raghuvamsa

40. Muna Madan

41. SugataSaurabha  

42. Epic of King Gesar , also spelled  Geser   or  Kesar  

43. Hoshruba : The Land and the Tilism

44. Abhijnana sakuntalam

45. Arthasastra by Chanakya