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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.
In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman a clef’?
To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern’s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?
Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?
Which Roman writer was famous for his Satires and Ars Poetica?
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 nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?
Pine Eyes is the literal translation of which characters name?
Thomas Keneally wrote which book (Oscar winning film)?
Who wrote that ‘The workers have nothing to lose but their chain'”?
What nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?
Which pair of German brothers collected such stories as ‘Hansel and Gretel’?
Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Henri Charrier is better known by what nickname?
What was the name of Joe and Frank Hardy’s maiden aunt and detective Fenton Hardy’s sister – in the popular book series for boys?
How many lovers are named in Casanova’s memoirs, Story of My Life, first published in their complete form in the early 1960s?
What was the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms Marsh?
What happens to Pinocchio every time he tells a lie?
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 Brontë’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?
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