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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

Answer
B) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Who was the first Pakistani author to win the Booker Prize?
A) Mohsin Hamid
B) Kamila Shamsie
C) Bapsi Sidhwa
D) Intizar Hussain

Answer
A) Mohsin Hamid

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

Answer
A) Sahitya Akademi Award

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

Answer
C) The Pulitzer Prize Board

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

Answer
C) Douglas Stuart

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

Answer
B) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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

Answer
B) Booker Prize

Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Doris Lessing
C) Orhan Pamuk
D) Mario Vargas Llosa

Answer
B) Doris Lessing

The Booker Prize is awarded in which country?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Canada
D) India

Answer
B) United Kingdom

Which country awards the Neustadt International Prize for Literature?
A) United Kingdom
B) United States
C) Canada
D) France

Answer
B) United States

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Toni Morrison
C) Selma Lagerlöf
D) Wislawa Szymborska

Answer
C) Selma Lagerlöf

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

Answer
B) Commonwealth 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

Answer
C) Kenzaburo Oe

The Booker Prize was originally awarded to books published in which country?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Canada
D) Australia

Answer
B) United Kingdom

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

Answer
A) Goncourt Prize

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

Answer
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

Answer
B) Midnight’s Children

Which country is home to the prestigious International Booker Prize?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Canada
D) France

Answer
B) United Kingdom

Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Bob Dylan
C) Herta Müller
D) Gabriel García Márquez

Answer
C) Herta Müller

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

Answer
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

Answer
A) Orhan Pamuk

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

Answer
B) National 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

Answer
B) Michael Ondaatje

The International Booker Prize is awarded to works translated into which language?
A) French
B) English
C) Spanish
D) German

Answer
B) English

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

Answer
A) Colson Whitehead

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

Answer
A) Pulitzer Prize 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

Answer
B) Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

Which country awards the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s literature?
A) Denmark
B) United States
C) Sweden
D) Norway

Answer
A) Denmark

The Hugo Award is given for excellence in which genre?
A) Nonfiction
B) Science fiction and fantasy
C) Historical fiction
D) Romance fiction

Answer
B) Science fiction and fantasy

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

Answer
B) Bernardine Evaristo

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

Answer
A) The Dylan Thomas Prize

Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Seamus Heaney
D) Nadine Gordimer

Answer
C) Seamus Heaney

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

Answer
A) The Remains of the Day

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