Recent Award Winners

Question 1

2014 Pulitzer Fiction

Answer 1

Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Question 2

2013 Pulitzer Fiction

Answer 2

The Orphan Master’s Son

Adam Johnson

Question 3

2012 Pulitzer Fiction

Answer 3

No Prize

Question 4

2011 Pulitzer Fiction

Answer 4

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Question 5

2014 Pulitzer Nonfiction

Answer 5

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin

Question 6

2013 Pulitzer Nonfiction

Answer 6

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshal, the Groveland Boys

Gilbert King

Question 7

2012 Pulitzer Nonfiction

Answer 7

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

Question 8

2011 Nonfiction Pulitzer

Answer 8

The Emperor of all Maladies: The Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Question 9

2013 Nobel in Lit

Answer 9

Alice Munro

s a Canadian author writing in English. Munro’s work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time

Question 10

2014 Man Booker

Answer 10

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan

Question 11

2013 Man Booker

Answer 11

The Luminaries

Eleanor Cotton (28)

Question 12

2012 Man Booker

Answer 12

Bring of the Bodies

Hilary Mantel (Won in 2009 for Wolf Hall)

Question 13

2011 Man Booker

Answer 13

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Question 14

1907 Nobel

Answer 14

Rudyard Kipling

Question 15

1923 Nobel

Answer 15

Yeats

Question 16

1925 Nobel

Answer 16

George Bernard Shaw

Question 17

1929 Nobel

Answer 17

Thomas Mann

Question 18

1930 Nobel

Answer 18

Sinclair Lewis

Question 19

1932 Nobel

Answer 19

John Galsworthy (The Forsythe Saga)

Question 20

1936 Nobel

Answer 20

Eugene O’Neil

Question 21

1938 Nobel

Answer 21

Pearl Buck

Question 22

1946 Nobel

Answer 22

Hermann Hesse (Sidhartha)

Question 23

1948 NObel

Answer 23

TS ELiot

Question 24

1949 Nobel

Answer 24

Faulker