Quiz  /  Literary Awards Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  • Eugene O’Neill
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • William Faulkner

  • 2. 
    Which novelist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

  • Alva Reimer Myrdal
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Alfonso García Robles
  • Elie Wiesel

  • 3. 
    Which Icelandic writer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955?

  • Halldór Laxness
  • Hallgrímur Pétursson
  • Eysteinn Ásgrímsson
  • Jónas Hallgrímsson

  • 4. 
    Who was the first writer in Chinese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  • Lu Xun
  • Mo Yan
  • Zhang Ailing
  • Gao Xingjian

  • 5. 
    Whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?

  • Eudora Welty’s
  • Margaret Mitchell’s
  • Edith Wharton’s
  • Pearl Buck’s

  • 6. 
    Which French writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 but declined to accept it?

  • Romain Rolland
  • Anatole France
  • André Gide
  • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • 7. 
    Which institution confers the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  • Norwegian Nobel Committee
  • Karolinska Institute
  • The Swedish Academy
  • Nobel Foundation

  • 8. 
    Which Russian writer was forced by his country to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958?

  • Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Boris Pasternak

  • 9. 
    Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  • Sigrid Undset
  • Pearl Buck
  • Selma Lagerlöf
  • Grazia Deledda

  • 10. 
    Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  • Anthony Eden
  • Winston Churchill
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • Tony Blair

  • 11. 
    Which American political novel by Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947?

  • All the King’s Men
  • At Heaven’s Gate
  • Night Rider
  • World Enough and Time

  • 12. 
    Against which Booker Prize winner did the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini issue a fatwa in 1989?

  • Anita Desai
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • J.M. Coetzee

  • 13. 
    What writer, the first Englishman to win a Nobel Prize, is remembered for his support of British imperialism?

  • Winston Churchill
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Patrick White
  • William Golding

  • 14. 
    Which of these awards is given by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music?

  • The Whitbread Book Award
  • The Booker Prize
  • The Pulitzer Prize
  • The Carnegie Medal
Report Question
warning
access_time
  Time