National & International Literary Awards MCQs with Answer
Which of the following is awarded annually for the best novel in the United States?
A) Booker Prize
B) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
C) National Book Award
D) Hugo Award
Who was the first Pakistani author to win the Booker Prize?
A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Kamila Shamsie
C) Bapsi Sidhwa
D) Intizar Hussain
Which literary award is given in honor of the Indian writer Sahitya Akademi?
A) Sahitya Akademi Award
B) Jnanpith Award
C) Booker Prize
D) Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is awarded by which of the following institutions?
A) The British Academy
B) The American Academy of Arts and Letters
C) The Pulitzer Prize Board
D) The University of Oxford
Which author won the Booker Prize in 2020 for their novel “Shuggie Bain”?
A) Bernardine Evaristo
B) Margaret Atwood
C) Douglas Stuart
D) Hilary Mantel
What is the name of the literary prize awarded to the best English-language novel published in the United States?
A) Booker Prize
B) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
C) National Book Award
D) Hugo Award
Which of the following is an international literary award given annually for the best novel of the year?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) Booker Prize
C) National Book Award
D) Costa Book Award
Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Doris Lessing
C) Orhan Pamuk
D) Mario Vargas Llosa
The Booker Prize is awarded in which country?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Canada
D) India
Which country awards the Neustadt International Prize for Literature?
A) United Kingdom
B) United States
C) Canada
D) France
Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Toni Morrison
C) Selma Lagerlöf
D) Wislawa Szymborska
The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is awarded to writers from which countries?
A) United Kingdom and United States
B) Commonwealth countries
C) European Union members
D) Arab countries
Which famous Japanese author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994?
A) Yukio Mishima
B) Haruki Murakami
C) Kenzaburo Oe
D) Yoko Ogawa
The Booker Prize was originally awarded to books published in which country?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Canada
D) Australia
Which literary prize is considered the highest literary award for a work in French literature?
A) Goncourt Prize
B) Prix Femina
C) Booker Prize
D) Hugo Award
Which literary award is often considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for young writers?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Booker Prize
C) The Whitbread Book Awards
D) The Dylan Thomas Prize
Which novel won the Booker Prize in 1997?
A) The Remains of the Day
B) Midnight’s Children
C) The God of Small Things
D) Wolf Hall
Which country is home to the prestigious International Booker Prize?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Canada
D) France
Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Bob Dylan
C) Herta Müller
D) Gabriel García Márquez
The Costa Book Awards are given in which category?
A) Best film adaptation
B) Best debut novel
C) Best work in translation
D) Best work of fiction
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006?
A) Orhan Pamuk
B) Doris Lessing
C) Bob Dylan
D) Peter Handke
Which award was established in 1969 to recognize the best novel of the year by an American author?
A) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
B) National Book Award
C) Hugo Award
D) Costa Book Award
Which of these writers was awarded the Booker Prize for “The English Patient”?
A) Julian Barnes
B) Michael Ondaatje
C) Kazuo Ishiguro
D) Hilary Mantel
The International Booker Prize is awarded to works translated into which language?
A) French
B) English
C) Spanish
D) German
Which of the following authors won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2018?
A) Colson Whitehead
B) Margaret Atwood
C) George Saunders
D) Richard Powers
What is the highest award for poetry in the United States?
A) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
B) T.S. Eliot Prize
C) Nobel Prize in Literature
D) National Book Award for Poetry
Which literary prize is awarded to the best work of nonfiction in the United States?
A) National Book Award
B) Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
C) Booker Prize
D) Costa Book Award
Which country awards the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s literature?
A) Denmark
B) United States
C) Sweden
D) Norway
The Hugo Award is given for excellence in which genre?
A) Nonfiction
B) Science fiction and fantasy
C) Historical fiction
D) Romance fiction
Which of these authors won the Booker Prize in 2019 for “Girl, Woman, Other”?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Bernardine Evaristo
C) Kamila Shamsie
D) Arundhati Roy
Which award is given annually to an outstanding British writer under the age of 40?
A) The Dylan Thomas Prize
B) The Booker Prize
C) The T.S. Eliot Prize
D) The Samuel Johnson Prize
Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Seamus Heaney
D) Nadine Gordimer
Which novel won the Booker Prize in 1992?
A) The Remains of the Day
B) The English Patient
C) The Black Prism
D) The Handmaid’s Tale