88 Nobel Prize In Literature Trivia Questions with Answers

88 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate became the only recipient to receive the award after his death?

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Erik Axel Karlfeldt

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote the novel The Tin Drum?

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Günter Grass

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature for his mastery of narrative art?

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Ernest Hemingway

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the 1987 award for works of broad human perspective?

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Joseph Brodsky

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Nobel Prize In Literature

How many times has the Nobel Prize in Literature not been awarded?

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Eight times

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which writer won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature for historical scholarship?

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Theodor Mommsen

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2021 for literature about colonialism and refugee lives?

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the 2017 award and wrote Never Let Me Go?

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the 1938 award for her vivid epic descriptions of Chinese peasant life?

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Pearl S. Buck

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2011 and was known for short, compressed poems?

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Tomas Tranströmer

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2006 and wrote My Name Is Red?

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Orhan Pamuk

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 2001 and wrote A House for Mr Biswas?

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V. S. Naipaul

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1964 but refused the award?

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1936 and wrote Long Day’s Journey into Night?

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Eugene O’Neill

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1925 after writing plays such as Pygmalion?

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George Bernard Shaw

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1980 for poetry expressing historical and political experience?

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Czesław Miłosz

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1967, becoming the first Guatemalan recipient?

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Miguel Ángel Asturias

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1923 for poetry marked by inspired expression?

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W. B. Yeats

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the 1957 award for illuminating the problems of the human conscience?

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Albert Camus

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the 2022 award for writing that uncovered the personal memory of estrangement?

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Annie Ernaux

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1970 for writing about the moral and political struggles of the Soviet Union?

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate became the first woman to win the award in 1909?

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Selma Lagerlöf

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Jon Fosse

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate was the first Japanese winner?

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Yasunari Kawabata

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Who was the first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Rabindranath Tagore

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the award in 1945, becoming the first Latin American author to receive it?

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Gabriela Mistral

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the award in 1993 and became the first African-American recipient?

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Toni Morrison

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won the award in 2015 for writing that gives voice to suffering and courage in the modern age?

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Svetlana Alexievich

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate received the award in 2016 for creating new poetic expressions within the American song tradition?

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Bob Dylan

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate was also Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

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Winston Churchill

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote the play Waiting for Godot?

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Samuel Beckett

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Nobel Prize In Literature

In which year did the Nobel Prize in Literature go to two laureates, Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke?

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2019

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate was the first writer to receive the award in Arabic?

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Naguib Mahfouz

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

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Ernest Hemingway

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Who was the oldest Nobel Prize in Literature laureate when awarded?

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Doris Lessing

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Nobel Prize In Literature

Who was the youngest Nobel Prize in Literature laureate at the time of the award?

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Rudyard Kipling

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Nobel Prize In Literature

In what year was the Nobel Prize in Literature first awarded?

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1901