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Who is the author of 'Sleeping on Jupiter', a novel longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015?

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The correct answer is

Anuradha Roy

Sleeping on Jupiter is the third novel of Indian author Anuradha Roy, published in 2015 by Hachette India.

The novel was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and went on to win the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The other listed authors — Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri and T.N. Ninan — are real writers but did not write this book.

Hence the correct author is Anuradha Roy — option (2).

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