- Comanche Moon, the latest novel by US author Larry McMurtry, tells the early story of characters from which of his previous books?
- A. Horseman, Pass By
- B. The Last Picture Show
- C. Lonesome Dove
- The 1963 novel Rayuela was a revolutionary work by Argentine author Julio Cortázar. True or false: The novel was noted for its unusual structure, which allowed the reader to begin reading at different chapters in the book.
- Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy was so popular that it was translated into more than forty languages. Which one of these works by Sienkiewicz is not part of the trilogy?
- A. The Deluge
- B. With Fire and Sword
- C. Quo Vadis?
- True or false: The 1994 Booker Prize, awarded to James Kelman for How Late It Was, How Late, was controversial because of the book's profanity and arcane Scots dialect.
- Although most Central American authors write in Spanish, Beka Lamb author Zee Edgell writes in English, the official language of her native country. Which country is it?
- A. Belize
- B. Costa Rica
- C. Panama
- The Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xuequin, was first published in 1765. True or false: This work is often considered the finest novel ever written in vernacular Chinese.
- Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. True or false: He is the author of the international bestseller One Hundred Years of Solitude.
- True or false: The hero of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's first novel, The Centaur in the Garden, is the half-human, half-horse son born to Jewish parents who immigrated to Brazil.
- French novelist Jean Cocteau penned the famous novel Les Enfants Terribles in 1929. True or false: Twenty-one years later, Cocteau adapted the novel into film.
- True or false: German novelist Günter Grass is the author of such classic books as Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
Answers
- C. The novel won the 1986 Pullitzer Prize for fiction.
- True
- C. Quo Vadis? focuses on early Christians persecuted by the Roman Empire.
- True
- A. Beka Lamb was a joint winner of the 1982 Fawcett Society Book Prize.
- True. It also had a tremendous influence on later art forms, including Chinese opera.
- True. Best-selling author Márquez is also credited with popularizing the literary genre known as magic realism (lo real maravilloso).
- True.
- True. Besides being a filmmaker and novelist, Cocteau was also a poet, dramatist, and artist.
- False. Those novels were written by the late German novelist Hermann Hesse. Günter Grass is best known for his 1959 novel The Tin Drum.