Who among the following Indian novelists and journalists is/are part of the five member jury for the 2026 International Booker Pr…

Question

Who among the following Indian novelists and journalists is/are part of the five member jury for the 2026 International Booker Prize?

1. Natasha Brown

2. Kiran Desai

3. Nilanjana S. Roy

4. Rajni Chauhan

Select the correct answer from the code given below:

1. A. 2 and 3
2. B. 3 and 4
3. C. Only 3 (Correct answer)
4. D. Only 1

Correct Answer

Option C — Only 3

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is Only 3.

Key Points

• Nilanjana S. Roy, the Indian novelist, journalist and critic, is part of the five-member jury for the 2026 International Booker Prize. Only item 3 is correct, giving option (c).
• Natasha Brown, Kiran Desai and Rajni Chauhan are not on that jury. Kiran Desai is a distractor of exactly the right kind — she is an Indian novelist and a Booker laureate, but as a winner (2006, *The Inheritance of Loss*), not a 2026 juror.

Additional Information

• Distinguish the two prizes carefully:
  • The Booker Prize is for fiction originally written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
  • The International Booker Prize is for fiction translated into English, with the £50,000 prize money split equally between author and translator.
• Indian and Indian-origin winners of the Booker: V. S. Naipaul (1971), Salman Rushdie (1981, Midnight's Children), Arundhati Roy (1997, The God of Small Things), Kiran Desai (2006) and Aravind Adiga (2008, The White Tiger).
• Geetanjali Shree won the International Booker in 2022 for *Tomb of Sand* (translated by Daisy Rockwell) — the first book in any Indian language to do so. Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won it in 2025 for *Heart Lamp*, the first Kannada work to win.