Noble Prize in Literature Test

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The Noble Prize in Literature is probably the most prestigious award for all authors. The prize has been awarded annually since 1901 to authors from all over the world who demonstrated idealistic tendency in their works. See if you can identify these Noble Prize winners!

This American author received the Noble Prize in Literature in 1954 "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

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	T.S. Elliot
	Ernest Hemingway
	Bertrand Russell
	Saul Bellow

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This Bengali poet was the first Asian to recieve the Noble Prize in Literature in 1913. Two songs from his canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana respectively.

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	Gabriela Mistral
	Naguib Mahfouz
	Odysseas Elytis
	Rabindranath Tagore

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This Briton was awarded the Noble Prize in 1953, and aside of being a great writer and historian, he was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II

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	T. S. Eliot
	Neville Chamberlain
	Winston Churchill
	Anthony Eden

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This Frenchman was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist, screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was to be awarded in 1964, but he declined.

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	André Gide
	Roger Martin du Gard
	François Mauriac
	Jean-Paul Sartre

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This 20th century Icelandic novelist received the Noble Prize in 1955. His works include Independent People, The Atom Station, and The Fish Can Sing.

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	Salvatore Quasimodo
	Halldór Laxness
	Boris Pasternak
	Eyvind Johnson

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This Briton received the Noble Prize in 1907 was the first English language writer to receive the prize. His notable works include The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim.

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	Rudyard Kipling
	Paul Heyse
	Carl Spitteler
	Derek Walcott

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This winner was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He works include The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and "Gösta Berling's Saga".

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	Grazia Deledda
	Selma Lagerlöf
	Erika Axel Karlfeldt
	Giosuè Carducci

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This British writer of Lord of the Flies received the Noble Prize in 1983 "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today."

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	Joseph Brodsky
	Herbert Goldman
	Ernest Hemingway
	William Golding

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This Irishman is the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). His works include Pygmalion, a play which was the basis for My Fair Lady.

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