Monday 13th January 2025
Who wrote?
Welcome. A straightforward “who wrote…..” set of questions today.
I remember reading these questions a few months back and being astounded by people getting the harder ones without a blink of the eye.
I think knowledge of award-winning books is bread and butter for the top quizzers. I’m talking beyond Nobel Prizes and Booker prizes, into things like translations awards.
Take as an example “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata which won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016 and came up in a recent World Quiz Championship.
QUESTIONS
Who wrote the 1852 anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Originally written as part of a satire in support of Charles Darwin, who wrote the popular children's book "The Water Babies"?
Back in 1916 "A portrait of the artist as a young man" was which Irish writer's debut novel?
A feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, who wrote the 1966 novel "Wide Sargasso Sea"?
"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" was a publishing sensation in 2019 and it won numerous awards. Who was the author?
"Between the World and Me" is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the realities of being Black in America today. It takes it's inspiration from what man's 1963 epistolary book "The Fire Next Time"?
First name Arthur, which author gave us the 1997 historical novel called "Memoirs of a Geisha"?
Who wrote the 1898 gothic horror novella "The Turn of the Screw"?
Winning the 1984 Booker Prize and later adapted into a TV series, who wrote the romantic and psychological fiction novel "Hotel du Lac"?
The winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008, "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House" was written by what woman?
Chronicling the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento, who wrote the 1958 novel "The Leopard"? This man was a Prince of a certain Mediterranean island, the name of which I will accept
Telling the story of a man under house arrest in a luxury hotel, which man wrote the 2016 novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Who wrote the 1852 anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher STOWE
Originally written as part of a satire in support of Charles Darwin, who wrote the popular children's book "The Water Babies"?
Charles KINGSLEY
Back in 1916 "A portrait of the artist as a young man" was which Irish writer's debut novel?
James JOYCE
A feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, who wrote the 1966 novel "Wide Sargasso Sea"?
Jean RHYS
"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" was a publishing sensation in 2019 and it won numerous awards. Who was the author?
Charles MACKESY
"Between the World and Me" is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the realities of being Black in America today. It takes it's inspiration from what man's 1963 epistolary book "The Fire Next Time"?
James BALDWIN
First name Arthur, which author gave us the 1997 historical novel called "Memoirs of a Geisha"?
Arthur GOLDEN
Who wrote the 1898 gothic horror novella "The Turn of the Screw"?
Henry JAMES
Winning the 1984 Booker Prize and later adapted into a TV series, who wrote the romantic and psychological fiction novel "Hotel du Lac"?
Anita BROOKNER
The winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008, "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House" was written by what woman?
Kate SUMMERSCALE
Chronicling the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento, who wrote the 1958 novel "The Leopard"? This man was a Prince of a certain Mediterranean island, the name of which I will accept
Giuseppe TOMASI di LAMPEDUSA (accept either capitalised word)
Telling the story of a man under house arrest in a luxury hotel, which man wrote the 2016 novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"?
Amor TOWLES
Finally, check out this video for some 2024 hits which may come up soon: