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Authors and Their Countries of Origin: Multiple Choice
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- 01The existentialist writer Albert Camus, author of 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague', was a citizen of which country, despite being born in Algeria?
- 02Haruki Murakami, known for novels like 'Kafka on the Shore' and 'Norwegian Wood', is a celebrated author from which nation?
- 03Margaret Atwood, the author of the dystopian novel 'The Handmaid's Tale', hails from which country?
- 04Chinua Achebe, the author of the groundbreaking novel 'Things Fall Apart', is considered a father of modern African literature. What is his country of origin?
- 05The author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', Gabriel García Márquez, was from which country?
- 06Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial and acclaimed novel 'The Satanic Verses', was born in which country?
- 07Franz Kafka, whose surreal works like 'The Metamorphosis' gave us the term 'Kafkaesque', was born in Prague, the capital of which modern-day country?
- 08Virginia Woolf, a pioneering modernist writer and author of 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse', was from which country?
- 09James Joyce, who revolutionized literature with 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegans Wake', was a celebrated writer from which island nation?
- 10Leo Tolstoy, who penned the epic novels 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', was a count from which country?
- 11Isabel Allende, famous for novels like 'The House of the Spirits', is originally from which long, narrow South American country?
- 12Jorge Luis Borges, a master of short stories and essays like those in 'Ficciones', was a key figure in literature from which South American country?