Nobel Laureates in Literature
- Question: 1969
- Answer: Samuel Beckett is most well known for his minimalist play Waiting for Godot.
- Question: 2010
- Answer: Mario Vargas Llosa is often considered to be the most-influential Latin American writer to come out of the literature boom in the region between the 1960s and the 1970s.
- Question: 1962
- Answer: John Steinbeck was an American writer who greatly contributed to the literary realist movement.
- Question: 1991
- Answer: Nadine Gordimer’s writing of apartheid in South Africa helped to illuminate the racial tensions in the area.
- Question: 1957
- Answer: Albert Camus, a writer and philosopher, was devoted to the ideas of absurdism, a school of thought that studies the inability of humans to find meaning in life.
- Question: 1901
- Answer: Sully Prudhomme was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Question: 2015
- Answer: Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian nonfiction writer whose contributions to journalism during World War II and beyond earned her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015.
- Question: 1949
- Answer: William Faulkner was the only Nobel winner to have been born in the state of Mississippi in the United States. His Southern heritage often influenced the themes in his writing.
- Question: 1993
- Answer: Toni Morrison is one of the most-influential writers in America; her writing often focuses on the topics of slavery and African American lives in the United States.
- Question: 1929
- Answer: Thomas Mann was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature in large part for his book Buddenbrooks, which tells of a German family’s downfall in the 1800s.
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