Updated - October 08, 2022 12:48 pm IST
Published - October 07, 2022 12:47 pm IST
Daily Quiz | On Nobel Prize in Literature
A national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia.
START THE QUIZ
1 / 7 |
He was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist, and is known for his books for children. He is the youngest recipient to date to have received the prize, at 41. Name the winner.
2 / 7 |
He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and is one of the two people who declined the prize. Identify the winner.
3 / 7 |
This book chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family over the course of four generations. This was the author’s first novel, and the work that eventually led to a Nobel Prize. Name the book and the author.
4 / 7 |
The Swedish Academy’s decision to award Sully Prudhomme the first Nobel Prize in Literature was heavily criticised at the time and remains one of the most criticised prize decisions in the history of the Nobel Prize in literature. Many believed this author should have been awarded the first Nobel Prize in literature instead. Name the author.
5 / 7 |
The author was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, at 88. Name the author.
6 / 7 |
The 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Toni Morrison. Morrison became the second American woman to win the prize since Pearl S. Buck in 1938. What is the other ceiling the author broke upon winning the Prize?
Answer : She became the first black woman of any nationality to win the Prize
DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?
YES
NO
SHOW ANSWER
7 / 7 |
Some of this author’s works are set in the fictional village of Macondo. The author’s Nobel lecture was called ‘The Solitude of Latin America’. Name the author.