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  • Q1
    Who is the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
    Wole Soyinka
    Ben Okri
    Chinua Achebe
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o
    30s
  • Q2
    Which American author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962?
    William Faulkner
    Toni Morrison
    John Steinbeck
    Ernest Hemingway
    30s
  • Q3
    Who is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Academy Award?
    Arthur Miller
    Tennessee Williams
    Harold Pinter
    Eugene O'Neill
    30s
  • Q4
    Who is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
    Doris Lessing
    Selma Lagerlöf
    Gabriela Mistral
    Toni Morrison
    30s
  • Q5
    Which Irish writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923?
    George Bernard Shaw
    William Butler Yeats
    James Joyce
    Oscar Wilde
    30s
  • Q6
    Which Russian-born author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970?
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    Leo Tolstoy
    Ivan Turgenev
    30s
  • Q7
    Who is the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
    Haruki Murakami
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    Yukio Mishima
    30s
  • Q8
    Which British author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983?
    William Golding
    R.R. Tolkien
    George Orwell
    S. Lewis
    30s
  • Q9
    Who is the first South American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Pablo Neruda
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Isabel Allende
    30s
  • Q10
    Which Polish poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980?
    Adam Zagajewski
    Zbigniew Herbert
    Czeslaw Milosz
    Wisława Szymborska
    30s

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