Literature Quiz 35

Books and Authors Quiz

All these authors are born on January

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1. This American author was an innovator in science fiction and his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Who is he?

Victor Hugo
H G Wells
Jack London
Oliver Ho

2. Who is known as the "Father of Modern Fantasy Literature"?

C S Lewis
George R R Martin
Neil Gaiman
J R R Tolkien

3. What is the original name of the author who is known by his pen name Lewis Carrol?

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
John Dickson Carr
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Benjamin Franklin

4. "A Passage to India", included by Time Magazine in "All-Time 100 Novels" list, is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. Who wrote this book?

E M Forster
Ramachandra Guha
Larry Collins
Abraham Eraly

5. Popularly identified as the "father of modern fantasy literature", this English author is known for his high fantasy children's novels. Do you know who he is?

George R R Martin
J R R Tolkien
Neil Gaiman
C S Lewis

6. This well-known Russian playwright and short-story writer was a doctor by profession. "The Cherry Orchard", the last play written by him, is widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century theatre. Who is he?

Leo Tolstory
Alexander Pushkin
Ivan Turganev
Anton Checkov

7. His biography of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, fetched him the coveted Pulitzer Prize for History in 1940. He had also won two Pulitzer Prizes for Literature for his poetry in 1919 and 1951. Can you identify this American poet, biographer and editor?

Carl Sandburg
William Faulkner
Robert Frost
Sinclair Lewis

8. Do you know the American writer who is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Wilkie Collins
Edgar Allan Poe
G K Chesterton

9. "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" was considered as early examples of modern detective novel. Do you know the author?

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe
Wilkie Collins
G K Chesterton

10. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, he is the author of the partly autobiographical novel, "Soul Mountain". Name the author

Gao Xingjian
Jin Yong
Lin Yutang
Mo Yan

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