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Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates: Multiple Choice
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- 01Which Colombian author, known for the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982?
- 02The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1909, was Selma Lagerlöf from which country?
- 03The author of 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms' won the Nobel Prize in 1954. Who was he?
- 04In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to which American musician for 'having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'?
- 05Which Japanese author, famous for 'Snow Country' and 'Thousand Cranes', was the first from his country to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968)?
- 06Who is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (for the screenplay of 'Pygmalion')?
- 07Which British Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his historical and biographical works?
- 08Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize in 1993, is the acclaimed author of which novel about a former slave haunted by her past?
- 09Which French author, known for works like 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague', won the Nobel Prize in 1957?
- 10Which Russian author was forced by Soviet authorities to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize for his novel 'Doctor Zhivago'?