Authors & Indian literature: Identify the writer of the novel "Swami and Friends".
Note: The book title is correctly spelled "Swami and Friends" (often mistyped as "Swamy and Friends") and is a classic of Indian English literature set in the fictional town of Malgudi.
Choose the correct author from the options.
Difficulty: Easy
Correct Answer: R. K. Narayan
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Work to identify: Swami and Friends (often misspelled as "Swamy and Friends").
Task: Name the correct author.
Concept/Approach Swami and Friends is the debut novel of R. K. Narayan and the first of his celebrated Malgudi stories.
Elimination
Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao are contemporaries but did not write this title.
Khushwant Singh and Ruskin Bond are notable Indian authors with different bibliographies.
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