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Example Question #44 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Who is the author of The Striders?
Hanya Yanagihara
Maxine Hong Kingston
Paul Yoon
Jhumpa Lahiri
A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan
The Striders (1966) is a collection of poetry by the writer and translator A. K. Ramanujan.
Paul Yoon wrote Once the Shore (2009), Jhumpa Lahiri wrote The Namesake (2003), Maxine Hong Kingston wrote Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), and Hanya Yanagihara wrote The People in the Trees (2013)
Example Question #175 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What country is the author of The Striders from?
Afghanistan
Turkey
India
Indonesia
Pakistan
India
A. K. Ramanujan is an Indian writer. He was born in Mysuru in the state of Karnataka, India.
The Striders was published in 1966.
Example Question #45 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Which of the following authors is not from the same country as the author of The Striders?
Arundhati Roy
Rabindranath Tagore
Marjane Satrapi
Amitav Ghosh
Salman Rushdie
Marjane Satrapi
Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy are all Indian writers. Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian writer and graphic novelist.
The Striders was published in 1966.
Example Question #46 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Which of the following is another work by the author of Autobiography of Red?
Last Poems
Red Doc>
Aurora Leigh
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Casa Guidi Windows
Red Doc>
Red Doc> (2013) is a 21st-century sequel to Autobiography of Red (1998). The other titles are all by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese was published in 1850, Last Poems was published in 1862, Aurora Leigh was published in 1857, and Casa Guidi Windows was published in 1851.
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