Nobel Prize in Literature

Literature · 10 questions

Laureates, languages and landmark works.

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1. Which Colombian author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982?

   1. Gabriel García Márquez
   2. Mario Vargas Llosa
   3. Isabel Allende
   4. Julio Cortázar
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   A) Gabriel García Márquez

2. Which Turkish novelist won the Nobel Prize in 2006?

   1. Yaşar Kemal
   2. Nazım Hikmet
   3. Elif Şafak
   4. Orhan Pamuk
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   D) Orhan Pamuk

3. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909)?

   1. Toni Morrison
   2. Selma Lagerlöf
   3. Doris Lessing
   4. Nadine Gordimer
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   B) Selma Lagerlöf

4. Which American singer-songwriter won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?

   1. Leonard Cohen
   2. Paul Simon
   3. Bob Dylan
   4. Bruce Springsteen
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   C) Bob Dylan

5. Which Nigerian writer was the first African laureate (1986)?

   1. Chinua Achebe
   2. Ben Okri
   3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
   4. Wole Soyinka
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   D) Wole Soyinka

6. Which French philosopher declined the Nobel Prize in 1964?

   1. Jean-Paul Sartre
   2. Albert Camus
   3. Simone de Beauvoir
   4. André Gide
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   A) Jean-Paul Sartre

7. Which Japanese author won in 1968 for novels like 'Snow Country'?

   1. Kenzaburō Ōe
   2. Yasunari Kawabata
   3. Yukio Mishima
   4. Kazuo Ishiguro
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   B) Yasunari Kawabata

8. Which Portuguese author, laureate in 1998, wrote 'Blindness'?

   1. Fernando Pessoa
   2. António Lobo Antunes
   3. José Saramago
   4. Eça de Queirós
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   C) José Saramago

9. The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded in Stockholm.

   1. True
   2. False
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   A) True

10. Ernest Hemingway never won the Nobel Prize.

    1. True
    2. False
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    B) False