Which Nobel laureate wrote the poem The Waste Land?
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T. S. Eliot
88 Nobel Prize In Literature Trivia Questions with Answers
88 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which poet won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature for his visionary poetry?
Answer
Odysseas Elytis
Which author won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for richly imaginative writing?
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Gabriel García Márquez
Which French philosopher declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Which French poet became the first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1901?
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Sully Prudhomme
Which South African writer won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Nadine Gordimer
Which two writers jointly won the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan
Which author shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Nelly Sachs?
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Who was the oldest person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Doris Lessing
How old was Rudyard Kipling when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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41 years old
Which Belarusian writer won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for polyphonic writings?
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Svetlana Alexievich
Which Italian poet won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature for lyrical intensity?
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Which French novelist won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature for idealism and sympathy?
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Romain Rolland
Which Polish author won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his outstanding epic writing?
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Which British prime minister won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953?
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Winston Churchill
Which writer won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature for idealistic philosophy?
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Rudolf Eucken
Who won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for deeply sensitive, fresh, and beautiful verse?
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Rabindranath Tagore
Which Austrian writer won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote The Piano Teacher?
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Elfriede Jelinek
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1978 for stories and novels about Jewish life?
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2000 and was born in China?
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Gao Xingjian
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1937 for the novel Les Thibault?
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Roger Martin du Gard
Which Spanish writer shared the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature with Frédéric Mistral?
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José Echegaray
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1949 and wrote The Sound and the Fury?
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William Faulkner
Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote the epic poem Aniara?
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Harry Martinson
On which date is the Nobel Prize in Literature normally presented each year?
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10 December
Which institution selects the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate?
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The Swedish Academy