Authors and literature

Who wrote Don Quixote and is considered the father of the modern novel?

Miguel de Cervantes (Spain, 1547–1616)

Who is the Russian author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina?

Leo Tolstoy (Russia, 1828–1910)

Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude and won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature?

Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1927–2014)

Which Japanese author is known for Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore?

Haruki Murakami (Japan, 1949– )

Who is the British author of Pride and Prejudice and Emma?

Jane Austen (England, 1775–1817)

Who wrote Things Fall Apart and is one of Africa’s most celebrated authors?

Chinua Achebe (Nigeria, 1930–2013)

Which American author wrote The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald (USA, 1896–1940)

Who is the contemporary British author of Harry Potter?

J.K. Rowling (UK, 1965– )

Who wrote The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment?

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821–1881)

Who is the Indian author of The God of Small Things?

Arundhati Roy (India, 1961– )

Which Chilean author wrote The House of the Spirits?

Isabel Allende (Chile, 1942– )

Who wrote Beloved and won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature?

Toni Morrison (USA, 1931–2019)

Which French author is famous for Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?

Victor Hugo (France, 1802–1885)

Who wrote The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?

Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan/USA, 1965– )

Who is the South African Nobel laureate known for Disgrace?

J.M. Coetzee (South Africa, 1940– )