Who wrote the book ‘The Village’?

Explanation

Mulk Raj Anand. Published in 1939, “The Village” is a classic novel by Mulk Raj Anand, a pioneer of Indian English fiction alongside R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. While Ruskin Bond is beloved for “The Room on the Roof” (1956), Arundhati Roy (1997) and Kiran Desai (2006) are renowned Man Booker Prize winners for “The God of Small Things” and “The Inheritance of Loss” respectively.