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Short story published in 1843 by Edgar Allen Poe about a lustrous scarab that leads William Legrand to treasure

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What is The Gold-Bug?

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Short story published June 26, 1948 by Shirley Jackson that involves bad luck and stoning

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What is The Lottery?

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Author of “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon”, also known as “Tinkers to Evers to Chance”, a 1910 poem about three outstanding Cubs infielders

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Who is Franklin Pierce Adams?

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Author of British graphic novel V for Vendetta, a series depicting a dystopian and apocalyptic United Kingdom published March 1982 - May 1989

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Who is Alan Moore?

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1989 book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar about the LBO of Nabisco

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What is Barbarians at the Gate?

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Author of 1990 novel Circle of Friends set in 1950s Dublin and the fictitious town of Knockglen about some university students

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Who is Maeve Binchy?

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Author of 1990 novel “Postmortem”, featuring Scarpetta, a crime-solving medical examiner

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Who is Patricia Cornwell?

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1847 novel by Emily Bronte about the Earnshaws and the Lintons

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What is Wuthering Heights?

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Author of 1913 poem Trees

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Who is Joyce Kilmer?

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Author of The Sound and the Fury (1929), a novel set in Jefferson, Mississippi about the Compson’s dissolution

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Who is William Faulkner?

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Author of As I Lay Dying, a 1930 Southern Gothic novel set in Jefferson, MS that follows Addie Bundren’s family’s quest to bury her

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Who is William Faulkner?

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The title of this novel comes from a line spoken by Agamemnon in Homer’s Odyssey

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What is As I Lay Dying?

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Author of The Borrowers, a 1952 children’s fantasy novel that feature the Clock family

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Who is Mary Norton?

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Harvard alum, Ragged Dick (1868), writings characterized by “rags to riches” narrative

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Who is Horatio Alger?

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Name and Author of 1998 techno-thriller featuring Susan Fletcher, the NSA’s head cryptographer

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What is Digital Fortress by Dan Brown?

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Author of Macbeth, the tragedy about a scot

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Who is Shakespeare?

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Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Play About a Good Woman, debuted 1892

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Who is Oscar Wilde?

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1953 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, British politician

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Who is Winston Churchill?

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1995 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, born 13 April 1939 near Castledawson in Northern Ireland

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Who is Seamus Heaney?

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Irish poet and author of Death of a Naturalist (1966)

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Who is Seamus Heaney?

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2021 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, born 20 December 1948 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar

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Who is Abdulrazak Gurnah?

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Tanzanian-born British Novelist responsible for Paradise (1994) and By the Sea (2001)

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Who is Abdulrazak Gurnah?

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Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2020, born April 22, 1943 in New York City

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Who is Louise Gluck?

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American poet and essayist that authored The Triumph of Achilles (1985) and The Wild Iris (1992)

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Who is Louise Gluck?

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Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019, born in Griffen, Austria in December 1942, considered one of the most influential and original German-language writers of the 20th century

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Who is Peter Handke? (Hand key)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 winner, born 29 January 1962 in Sulechow, Poland, notable works include: The Books of Jacob (2014), Bones of the Dead (2009), Flights (2007), Primeval and Other Times (1996)

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Who is Olga Tokarczuk?

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Polish author of Primeval and Other Times, Flights, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and The Books of Jacob

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Who is Olga Tokarczuk?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 winner, English writer born November 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, notable works include: An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, When We were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Kiara and the Sun

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Who is Sir Kazuo Ishiguro?

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English writer of An Artist of the Floating World (1986), the Remains of the Day (1989), When We Were Orphans (2000), Never Let Me Go (2005), and Kira and the Sun (2021)

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Who is Sir Kazuo Ishiguro?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 winner, American singer-songwriter born May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota

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Who is Bob Dylan?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 winner, first Belarusian to win the award, journalist and oral historian born May 1948 in what is now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

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Who is Svetlana Alexievich?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 winner, french novelist born July 1945, known for “autofictions” set in wartime

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Who is Patrick Modiano?

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French author that used fascination with WWII to examine the human experience

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Who is Patrick Modiano?

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2013 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Canadian short story writer born 1931 in Ontario

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Who is Alice Munro?

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Winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, Chinese writer born February 1955

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Who is Mo Yan?

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Notable works of his include Red Sorghum Clan (1986), The Republic of Wine (1992), and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006)

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Who is Mo Yan?

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Winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011, Swedish poet born in April 1931 in Stockholm

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Who is Tomas Transtromer?

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Notable works of his include Baltics (1974), For the Living and The Dead (1989), and The Sorrow Gondola (1996), he’s considered one of the most important post WW2 Scandinavian writers

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Who is Tomas Transtromer?

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Winner of 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, Peruvian writer born in Arequipa 1936

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Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?

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He rose to international fame with novels such as The Time of the Hero (1963), La casa verde (1965), and Conversacion en la catedral (1969)

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Who is Mario Vargas Llosa?

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2009 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, German writer born August 1953 in Romania, notable works include: Nadirs, The Passport, The Appointment, The Hunger Angel

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Who is Herta Muller?

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Notable works of hers include The Passport (1986), The Appointment (1997), and The Hunger Angel (2009), which tell stories of the German minority in Romania

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Who is Herta Muller?

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2008 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, French and Mauritian writer and professor, born in Nice, France 1940

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Who is J. M. G. Le Clezio?

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Author of The Interrogation (1964), originally published 1963 as Le Proces-Verbal, a novel about loner Adam Pollo

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Who is J.M.G Le Clezio?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 winner, late British novelist born October 1919 in Kermanshah, Iran

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Who is Doris Lessing?

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Her notable works include The Grass is Singing (1950), Children of Violence (1952-1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979-1983)

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Who is Doris Lessing?

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Oldest person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature at 88 years old

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Who is Doris Lessing?

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Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, born in Istanbul, Turkey 1952

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Who is Orhan Pamuk?

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Turkey’s best-selling writer

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Who is Orhan Pamuk?

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Notable works of his include Cevdet Bey and His Sons (1982), Silent House (1983), The Black Book (1990), The New Life (1994), My Name is Red (1998), Snow (2002), The Museum of Innocence (2008), A Strangeness in My Mind (2014), and The Red-Haired Woman (2016)

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Who is Orhan Pamuk?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 winner, British dramatist born in London, October 1930

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Who is Harold Pinter?

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Well-known plays of his include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978)

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Who is Harold Pinter?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 winner, Austrian playwright and novelist (wrote in German) born October 1946 in Murzzuschlag (The Piano Teacher 1983, The Children of the Dead 1995)

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Who is Elfriede Jelinek?

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Notable novels of hers include The Piano Teacher (1983), Die Kinder der Toten ((The Children of the Dead) (1995)), Greed (2000), and Lust (1989)

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Who is Elfriede Jelinek?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 winner, South African novelist turned Australian, born in Cape Town, South Africa February 1940
(Life and Times of Michael K, 1983)
(In the Heart of the Country, 1977)

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Who is John Maxwell Coetzee?

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Novels of his include Life & Times of Michael K (1983), and Disgrace (1999), both of which he won the Booker Prize for

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Who is J. M. Coetzee? (Khut-zaya)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 winner, Hungarian author born in Budapest November 1929, Holocaust survivor and first Hungarian winner

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Who is Imre Kertesz? (EEM-er-eh CARE-tiss)

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Notable works include Fatelessness (1975), Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990), and Liquidation, he died in his birthplace of Budapest from Parkinson’s

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Who is Imre Kertesz? (EEM-er-eh CARE-tiss)

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Nobel prize in Literature 2001 recipient, Trinidadian-born British writer born in Chaguanus

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Who is Sir V. S. Naipaul?

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Notable works include A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (1971), A Bend in the River (1979) and The Enigma of Arrival (1987)

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Who is Sir V. S. Naipaul?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2000 winner, Chinese writer born in Ganzhou, January 4, 1940

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Who is Gao Xingjian?

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Notable works include Absolute Signal (1982), The Bus Stop (1983), Wild Man (1985), The Other Shore (1986), and Soul Mountain (1990)

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Who is Gao Xingjian?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 winner, German novelist born in the Free City of Danzig in 1927, part of Poland today

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Who is Gunter Grass?

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Notable works of this German include The Tin Drum (1959), Cat and Mouse (1961), Dog Years (1963), Crab Walk (2002), and What Must Be Said (2012)

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Who is Gunter Grass?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 winner, Portuguese writer born in Santarem, Portugal, November 1922

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Who is Jose Saramago?

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Notable works include Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), Blindness (1995), and Death with Interruptions (2005), and Cain (2009)

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Who is Jose Saramago?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 winner, Italian playwright born in March 1926

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Who is Dario Fo?

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Notable plays include Archangels Don’t Play Pinball (1959), Mistero Buffo (1969), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), Trumpets and Raspberries (1981) and The Pope and the Witch (1989)

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Who is Dario Fo?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 winner, Polish poet born in July 1923

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Who is Wislawa Szymborska?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 winner, Japanese writer born January 1935

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Who is Kenzaburo Oe?

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Notable works include novels A Personal Matter (1964), and The Silent Cry (1967)

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Who is Kenzaburo Oe?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 winner, American novelist born in Lorain, Ohio, February 1931

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Who is Toni Morrison?

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Her notable works include The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), and Beloved (1987)

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Who is Toni Morrison?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 winner, poet and playwright born in Castries, Saint Lucia, January 1930

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Who is Sir Derek Walcott?

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Notable works include Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967), Omeros (1990), and White Egrets (2007)

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Who is Sir Derek Walcott?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 winner, writer and political activist born in Springs, South Africa November 1923

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Who is Nadine Gordimer?

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Notable works include The Conservationist (1974), Burger’s Daughter (1979), and July’s People (1981)

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Who is Nadine Gordimer?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 winner, Mexican poet born March 1914 in Mexico City (The Labyrinth of Solitude 1950)

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Who is Octavio Paz?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 winner, Spanish writer born May 1916 in Galicia

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Who is Camilo Jose Cela?

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Notable works include The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942), and The Hive (1950)

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Who is Camilo Jose Cela?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 winner, Egyptian writer born December 1911 in Cairo, notable works include The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) and Children of Gebelawi

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Who is Naguib Mahfouz? (nuh-geeb maa-fooz)

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Notable works include The Cairo Trilogy (1956-1957), Children of Gebelawi (1959), and The Harafish (1977)

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Who is Naguib Mahfouz?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 winner, Russian-American born May 1940 in Leningrad

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Who is Joseph Brodsky?

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Notable works include Gorbunov and Gorchakov (1970) and Less than One: Selected Essays (1986)

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Who is Joseph Brodsky?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 winner, Nigerian playwright born July 1934

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Who is Wole Soyinka? (woah-lay shoy-ink-uh)

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 winner, French novelist born October 1913 in Madagascar, received international recognition for Le Route de Flandres (The Flanders Road)

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Who is Claude Simon?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1984 winner, Czech writer born September 1901 in Prague, poems Autobiography, An Umbrella from Piccadilly

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Who is Jaroslav Seifert?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 winner, British writer born September 1911 in Newquay, Cornwall, author of Lord of the Flies (1954 novel)

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Who is Sir William Golding?

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Notable works include Lord of the Flies (1954) and Rites of Passage (1980), the first of a nautical trilogy

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Who is Sir William Golding?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 winner, born March 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia

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Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

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Notable works include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)

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Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1980 winner, Polish-American poet born under the Kovno Governorate June 1911

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Who is Czeslaw Milosz?

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Notable works of this Polish-American Nobel laureate include Rescue (1945), The Captive Mind (1953), and A Treatise on Poetry (1957)

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Who is Czeslaw Milosz?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 winner, born in Heraklion, Greece November 1911

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Who is Odysseas Elytis?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 winner, American writer born in Leoncin, Poland November 1903

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Who is Isaac Bashevis Singer?

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Notable works include The Magician of Lublin (1960), and A Day of Pleasure (1969), he originally wrote them in Yiddish

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Who is Isaac Bashevis Singer?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 winner, Spanish poet born in Seville on April 1898

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Who is Vicente Aleixandre?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 winner, American writer born June 1915 in Quebec, Canada

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Who is Saul Bellow?

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This late Canadian-born American is the only writer that’s won the National Book Award for Fiction three times

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Who is Saul Bellow?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1975 winner, poet Italian born September 1896 in Genoa

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Who is Eugenio Montale?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1974 winners

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Who are Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson?

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Notable novels of this Swede born July 1900 in Boden include Return to Ithaca (1946) and The Days of His Grace (1960)

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Who is Eyvind Johnson?

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This Swedish author wrote Aniara, the 1956 story of a spacecraft that loses its course

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Who is Harry Martinson?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 winner, Australian writer born May 1912 in Middlesex, England

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Who is Patrick White?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 winner, German born December 1917 in Cologne

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Who is Heinrich Boll?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 winner, Chilean poet born in July 1904, author of collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)

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Who is Pablo Neruda?

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 winner, Russian novelist born December 1918 in Kislovodsk

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Who is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

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Notable novels of this Russian include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), Cancer Ward (1966), The Red Wheel (1971-1991), The Gulag Archipelago (1973), and Two Hundred Years Together (2001-2002)

A

Who is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

109
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 winner, Irish novelist and playwright born April 1906 in Dublin that wrote in both French and English

A

Who is Samuel Beckett?

110
Q

Notable novels include Murphy (1938), Watt (1953), Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), The Unnamable (1953), and How It Is (1961)

A

Who is Samuel Beckett?

111
Q

Writer of Waiting for Godot (1953), a tragicomedy featuring Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, and Lucky

A

Who is Samuel Beckett?

112
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 winner, Japanese writer born June 1899 in Osaka, Japan

A

Who is Yasunari Kawabata?

113
Q

Notable works include Snow Country (1935-1937), The Master of Go (1951), The Dancing Girl of Izu (1926) and The Old Capital (1962)

A

Who is Yasunari Kawabata?

114
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 winner, Guatemalan born October 1899 in Guatemala City

A

Who is Miguel Angel Asturias?

115
Q

Notable works include El Senor Presidente (1946), and Men of Maize (1949)

A

Who is Miguel Angel Asturias?

116
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 winners, both of their work focused on Jewish life

A

Who are Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs?

117
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 winner, known for writing about the Don Cossacks, born May 1905 under the Russian Empire

A

Who is Mikhail Sholokhov?

118
Q

Pen name: Jane Somers

A

Who is Doris Lessing?

119
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1964 winner, the first to ever voluntarily decline

A

Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?

120
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1963 winner, Greek poet born February 1900 in Urla (then part of the Ottoman Empire)

A

Who is Giorgos Seferis?

121
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 winner, American writer born February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California

A

Who is John Steinbeck?

122
Q

Notable works of his include: Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and East of Eden (1952)

A

Who is John Steinbeck?

123
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1961 winner, a Yugoslav born October 9, 1892 in Austria-Hungary

A

Who is Ivo Andric?

124
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 winner, French poet born May 31, 1887 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe

A

Who is Saint-John Perse? (also known as Alexis Leger)

125
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1959 winner, Italian poet born August 20, 1901 in Modica, Sicily

A

Who is Salvatore Quasimodo?

126
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1958 winner, Russian writer born February 10, 1890 in Moscow, he was forced to decline by the USSR because of his novel’s criticisms of Soviet rule

A

Who is Boris Pasternak?

127
Q

Author of Doctor Zhivago, a 1957 novel published in Italy because it was refused publication in the USSR

A

Who is Boris Pasternak?

128
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 winner, French philosopher born November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, French Algeria (Present-day Drean, Algeria)

A

Who is Albert Camus?

129
Q

Notable works of this second-youngest Nobel prize winner include The Stranger (1942 novella), The Myth of Sisyphus (1942 essay), The Rebel (1951 essay), and The Plague (1947 novel)

A

Who is Albert Camus?

130
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1956 winner, Spanish “pure” poet born December 23, 1881 in Moguer, Huelva, Andalucia, Spain that delt with multiple bouts of deep depression

A

Who is Juan Ramón Jiménez?

131
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1955 winner, Icelandic writer born in Reykjavik April 23, 1902

A

Who is Halldor Kiljan Laxness?

132
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 winner, American born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, known for his “iceberg theory” style of writing

A

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

133
Q

Notable works include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

A

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

134
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 winner, French writer born October 11, 1885 in Bordeaux

A

Who is François Mauriac?

135
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1951 winner, Swedish author who examined good and evil, born May 23, 1891 in Vaxjo, Sweden

A

Who is Pär Lagerkvist?

136
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 winner, British intellectual born May 18, 1872 in Trellech, Wales

A

Who is Bertrand Arthur William Russell? (3rd Earl Russell)

137
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 winner, American novelist and short-story writer born September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, a southern literature giant

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138
Q

Notable works of his include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), A Rose for Emily (1930), and The Bear (1942)

A

Who is William Faulkner?

139
Q

Real-life County of which Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County (first seen in Sartoris) is based on

A

What is Lafayette County, MS?

140
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1948 winner, poet and playwright born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, he became a British citizen in 1927

A

Who is Thomas Stearns Eliot? (T.S. Eliot)

141
Q

Notable poems: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943)

A
142
Q

Notable plays: Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949)

A

Who is Thomas Stearns Eliot? (T.S. Eliot

143
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 winner, French novelist born November 22, 1869 in Paris, his 1951 obit in the NYT read: “France’s greatest contemporary man of letters” and “judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti”

A

Who is Andre Gide?

144
Q

Notable works (published in French) include: The Immortalist (1902), Strait is the Gate (1909), The Pastoral Symphony (novella, 1919), The Counterfeiters (1925) and The Fruits of the Earth (poem, 1897)

A

Who is André Gide?

145
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 winner, German-Swiss writer born July 2, 1877 in Calw, under the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, German Empire

A

Who is Hermann Hesse? (Hess-uh)

146
Q

Notable works include The Glass Bead Game (1943), Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), and Demian (1919)

A

Who is Hermann Hesse?

147
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 winner, Chilean poet born April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile, the first Latin American author to receive it

A

Who is Gabriela Mistral?

147
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 winner, Chilean poet born April 7, 1889 in Vicuña, Chile, the first Latin American author to receive it

A

Who is Gabriela Mistral?

148
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1944 winner, Danish writer born January 20, 1873 in Farso, Jutland, Denmark

A

Who is Johannes V. Jensen?

149
Q

The monarch and character of focus in Johannes V. Jensen’s novel The Fall of The King, published in three parts 1900-1901

A

Who are Christian II *ruled 1513-1523) and Mikkel Thogerson?

150
Q

No Nobel Prize in Literature was given these years

A

What is 1914, 1918, 1935, and 1940-1943?

151
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1939 winner, first Finnish writer to receive the award, born September 16, 1888 in Hämeenkyrö, Finland

A

Who is Frans Eemil Sillanpää?

152
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 winner, American writer born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia, she spent a large portion of her life in China

A

Who is Pearl Buck? (also known as Sai Zhenzhu)

153
Q

Author of best-selling novel The Good Earth (1931), a novel about Chinese village life for which she won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize

A

Who is Pearl Buck?

154
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1937 winner, French novelist born March 23, 1881 in Neuilly, Hauts-de-Seine, known for The Thibaults, a series of novels published 1922-1940

A

Who is Roger Martin du Gard?

155
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 winner, American playwright born October 16, 1888 in New York City in a hotel

A

Who is Eugene O’Neill?

156
Q

Known for the tragedy Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956) and comedy Ah, Wilderness! (1933)

A

Who is Eugene O’Neill?

157
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 winner, Italian dramatist born June 28, 1867 in Agrigento, Sicily

A

Who is Luigi Perandello?

158
Q

Notable works include: The Late Mattia Pascal (1904 novel), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921 play), Henry IV (1922 play), One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926 novel)

A

Who is Luigi Pirandello?

159
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1933 winner, first Russian to win the award, born October 22, 1870 in Voronezh

A

Who is Ivan Bunin?

160
Q

Notable works include: The Village (1910 short novel), The Gentleman from San Fransisco (1915 short story), The Life of Arseniev (1927-1939 autobiographical novel), and Dark Avenues (1938-1946 short stories)

A

Who is Ivan Bunin?

161
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1932 winner, English novelist born August 14, 1867 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England

A

Who is John Galsworthy?

162
Q

Known for The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter

A

Who is John Galsworthy?

163
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1931 winner, Swedish poet, the only to win it posthumously, born July 20, 1864 in Karlbo, Dalarna, Sweden

A

Who is Erik Axel Karlfeldt?

164
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 winner, the first American writer to win, born February 7, 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota

A

Who is Sinclair Lewis?

165
Q

Notable novels include: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can’t Happen Here (1935)

A

Who is Sinclair Lewis?

166
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 winner, German writer born June 6, 1875 in Free City of Lubeck, German Empire

A

Who is Thomas Mann?

167
Q

Notable works include: Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (1924), Death in Venice (1912), Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943), and Doctor Faustus (1947)

A

Who is Thomas Mann?

168
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 winner, Norweigian-Danish novelist born May 20, 1882 in Kalundborg, Denmark

A

Who is Sigrid Undset?

169
Q

Author of Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages from a woman’s perspective

A

Who is Sigrid Undset?

170
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1927 winner, French philosopher born October 18, 1859 in Paris

A

Who is Henri Bergson?

171
Q

Notable works include his doctoral thesis Time and Free Will (1889), as well as books Matter and Memory (1896) and Creative Evolution (1907)

A

Who is Henri Bergson?

172
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1928 winner, Italian writer born September 27, 1871 in Nuoro, Italy, the first Italian woman to receive the prize

A

Who is Grazia Deledda?

173
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 winner, Irish playwright born July 26, 1856 in Dublin

A

Who is George Bernard Shaw?

174
Q

Major plays of his include Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923)

A

Who is George Bernard Shaw?

175
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 winner, Polish novelist born May 7, 1867 in Congress Poland, Russian Empire. notable works include The Promised Land (1899 novel) and The Peasants (1904-1909 four-part novel), the latter of which took him awhile because of a rail accident

A

Who is Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont?

176
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 winner, Irish dramatist born in Sandymount, Dublin on June 13, 1865

A

Who is William Butler Yeats?

177
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 winner, Spanish dramatist born August 12, 1866 in Madrid

A

Who is Jacinto Benavente?

178
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1921 winner, French writer born April 16, 1844 in Paris, it’s believed he’s the model for Marcel’s literary idol Bergotte in his In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927)

A

Who is Anatole France?

179
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 winner “for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil”, Norwegian writer born August 4, 1859 in Lom, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway

A

Who is Knut Pedersen Hamsun?

180
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1919 winner “in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring”, Swiss poet born April 24, 1845 in Liestal, Switzerland

A

Who is Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler?

181
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 winners, both Danes born in 1857

A

Who are Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan?

182
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1916 winner, Swedish poet and novelist born July 6, 1859 in Olshammar, Sweden

A

Who is Verner von Heidenstam?

183
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1915 winner, French writer born January 29, 1866 in Clamecy, France

A

Who is Romain Rolland?

184
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 winner, Indian writer born May 7, 1861 in Kolkata, India, “the bard of Bengal”

A

Who is Rabindranath Tagore?

185
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1912 winner, German dramatist born November 15, 1862 in what is now a spa town in Poland, wrote The Weavers (1892) and The Rats (1911)

A

Who is Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann?

186
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 winner, Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist that wrote in French, born August 29, 1862 in Ghent, Belgium

A

Who is Count Maurice Maeterlinck?

187
Q

Notable plays include Intruder (1890), The Blind (1890), Pelleas et Melisande (1893), Interior (1895) and The Blue Bird (1908)

A

Who is Maurice Maeterlinck?

188
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1910 winner, German writer born March 15, 1830 in Berlin

A

Who is Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse? (Paul hay-zuh)

189
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 winner, Swedish author born November 20, 1858 in Marbacka, Varmland County, Sweden, the first woman to win the prize and firsst woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish academy

A

Who is Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof?

190
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 winner, German philosopher born January 5 1846 in Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany

A

Who is Rudolf Christoph Eucken? (eye-ken)

191
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 winner, English writer born December 30, 1865 in Malabar Hill, British India

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Who is Rudyard Kipling?

192
Q

Notable works include: The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1900-1901), Captains Courageous (1897), If- (1910 poem), Gunga Din (1890 poem), and The White Man’s Burden (1899)

A

Who is Rudyard Kipling?

193
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1906 winner, Italian poet and writer born July 27, 1835 in Tuscany, the first Italian to receive the prize

A

Who is Giosue Carducci?

194
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 winner, Polish writer remembered for historical novels, of which Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero (1896) was his bestseller, born May 5, 1846

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Who is Henryk Sienkiewicz? (Shen-KYEV-itch”

195
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1904 winners, French writer born September 8, 1830 in Mailane and Spanish dramatist and mathemetician born April 19, 1832 in Madrid

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Who is Frederic Mistral and Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre?

196
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1903 winner, Norwegian writer born December 8, 1832 in Kvikne, Norway, the first Norwegian laureate, author of the Norwegian national anthem

A

Who is Bjornstjerne Martinus Bjornson?

197
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1902 winner, German classical scholar born November 30, 1817 in Garding, wrote The History of Rome, published in 3 volumes 1854-1856

A

Who is Theodor Mommsen?

198
Q

Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 winner, French poet and essayist born March 16, 1839 in Paris

A

Who is Sully Prudhomme?

199
Q

Writer best known for spy novels featuring 007

A

Who is Ian Fleming?

200
Q

Author of War and Peace, published in its entirety in 1869

A

Who is Leo Tolstoy?

201
Q

Author of Anna Karenina, 1878, a novel that focuses on the title character and Count Vronsky, her cavalry officer lover

A

Who is Leo Tolstoy?

202
Q

Tolstoy novella published in 1886 about a magistrate with terminal illness

A

What is The Death of Ivan Ilyich? (ill-eech)

203
Q

Author of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, published in 1894 after being banned in his home country of Russia

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Who is Leo Tolstoy?

204
Q

Tolstoy’s last novel, published in 1899, which got him banned from the Russian Orthodox Church

A

What is Resurrection?

205
Q

Five families mentioned in this novel include the Bezukhovs, Bolkonskys, Rostovs, Kuragins, and the Drubestskoys

A

What is War and Peace?

206
Q

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Pulitzer Prize winner published July 11, 1960

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Who is Harper Lee?

207
Q

This author was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, she based her classic novel on experiences there

A

Who is Harper Lee?

208
Q

Fictional setting of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird

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What is Maycomb?

209
Q

This Author’s best-known work is the Rabbit series, novels about middle-class American Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom

A

Who is John Updike?

210
Q

1936 novel by Faulkner, narrated by Quentin Compson about the life of Thomas Sutpen, named after the biblical son of King David

A

What is Absalom, Absalom!

211
Q

Author of Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), The Border Trilogy (1992-1998), No Country for Old Men (2005), and The Road (2006)

A

Who is Cormac McCarthy?

212
Q

Cormac McCarthy’s fifth book, published April 1985, which some consider to be the Great American Novel

A

What is Blood Meridian?

213
Q

Protagonist and Antagonist of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985)

A

Who is The Kid and Judge Holden?

214
Q

Gabito’s magnum opus about the Buendia family and the town of Macondo

A

What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?

215
Q

Upon his death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos called him “the greatest Colombian to have ever lived.”

A

Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

216
Q

This ancient author is credited with writing the Kama Sutra

A

Who is Vatsayana?

217
Q

The humanist father of free verse, born May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York

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Who is Walt Whitman?

218
Q

Author of 1855 sensual poetry collection Leaves of Grass, as well as “O Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, both poems about honest Abe

A

Who is Walt Whitman?

219
Q

Author of Spindle’s End (2000), which is a retelling of fairy tale Sleeping Beauty

A

Who is Robin McKinley?

220
Q

American author best known for children’s book series about literal-minded Amelia Bedelia, born July 14, 1927 in Manning, South Carolina

A

Who is Peggy Parish?

221
Q

English author and illustrator of children’s books born July 28, 1866 in West Brompton, London, best known for The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

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Who is Beatrix Potter?

222
Q

Notable works include The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), and Seize the Day (1956)

A

Who is Saul Bellow?

223
Q

Charles Dodgson’s pen name

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What is Lewis Carroll

224
Q

Author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), as well as poems Jabberwocky (1871) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

A

Who is Lewis Carroll?

225
Q

First three words of this novel are “
Call me Ishmael.”

A

What is Moby Dick, by Herman Melville?

226
Q

Author of novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

A

Who is L. Frank Baum?

227
Q

Author of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816)

A

Who is Jane Austen?

228
Q

1850 novel by Nathanial Hawthorne set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1642-1649 that follows character Hester Prynne

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What is The Scarlet Letter?

229
Q

Author of 1962 novel Sex and the Single Girl

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Who is Helen Gurley Brown?

230
Q

Creator of fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot

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Who is Agatha Christie?

231
Q

Author of Day of the Locust (1939 novel)

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Who is Nathanael West?

232
Q

Author of Thrump-O-Moto (1986)

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Who is James Clavell?

233
Q

Romanian-born American author, Auschwitsz survivor, author of Night (1960)

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Who is Elie Wiesel?

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