World Literature
The world is full of stories, and this category contains multitudes. If you know your Hesse from your Hosseini and your Adichie from your Allende, these World Literature questions are the ones for you.
Which famous writer was prime minister at the Weimar court from 1775-85?
Sometimes called the world’s first novel, what 11th century work of Japanese literature is attributed to Murasaki Shikibu?
What Frenchman wrote about two fantastic space odysseys – one to the moon and one to the sun – more than 200 years before Jules Verne?
An opera written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal was first performed on December 24, 1871. What was it?
Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha are prominent characters in which controversial literary work that famously attracted a fatwa?
WHAT ‘S’ WROTE LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR?
Who wrote the novel The Vicar of Wakefield?
What trilogy of Arabic literature consists of the books Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street?
Which recent Nobel laureate and the author of The Time of the Hero, The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990?
What is the native language of English playwright Tom Stoppard, author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties and The Real Thing?
In which much-told legend does a magician sell his soul to the Devil?
Which 1944 work of Friedrich Hayek is among the most influential expositions of classical liberalism and is stated as the single book that significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan?
Who first produced a book in 1955 to help pub owners settle debates (and bets) between patrons?
Which French novelist played in goal for Algeria?
WHO WAS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION?
Which French author is the subject of a statue in the Candie Gardens on the Isle of Guernsey?
A museum outside Nairobi, Kenya, “at the foot of the Ngong Hills” was donated by the Danish government in 1964 to the new Kenyan government as an independence gift. It was originally a residence of which writer?
Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte BrontĂ«’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre?
Who was don Diego de la Vega?
What was the name of French writer Alexandre Dumas’ palatial home in Paris?
What did teenager Anne Frank leave behind that was published after her death?
Which playwright and poet wrote Peer Gynt and Ghosts while in exile form his native Norway?
Who was the Danish author of Out of Africa?
WHICH ‘HCA’ WROTE ABOUT ‘THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES’?
What is the name of the whale in Pinocchio?
Charles de Gaulle served as ghost-writer of the book “The Soldier” for what famous World War I military hero?
Which Russian writer wrote Cancer Ward?
Which pair of German brothers collected such stories as ‘Hansel and Gretel’?
Which 1996 multi-Oscar-winner was based on a Michael Ondaatje novel?
What famous nineteenth-century French novelist published a plagiarized nonfiction work under the pseudonym Bombet and when the plagiarism was discovered, defended the nonexistent Bombet in letters signed by an equally nonexistent Bombet Jr.?
What was the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms Marsh?
In the book Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who is the serial killer?
WHAT ‘H’ WAS A BLIND EPIC POET?
Quo Vadis – Who was portrayed by Peter Ustinov in the film version of the novel?
Who wrote The Jungle Book?
All told, how many novels did the Bronte sisters – Anne, Charlotte and Emily-write?
In the book Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, who kills a person at the end of the book?
To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern´s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?
What French writer used Alcofribas Nasier – an anagram of his real name – as a pseudonym?
French novelist – nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine?
Which classic Middle Eastern story of star-crossed lovers is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mullawah and has achieved legendary status in the Islamic world?
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE HEROIC BOY IN “THE NEVER ENDING STORY?
Who wrote the novel Les Miserables?
The Irish dramatist Samuel Beckett settled in which city?
Whose fan did Oscar Wilde write of?
Tis is the title of the sequel to which biographical 1996 book that is mainly about growing up poor in Ireland?
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Who wrote the novel Cry, the Beloved Country about South Africa?
Which Norwegian fairy tale is about three goats who want to cross a bridge under which lurks a fearsome troll?
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