Books and Authors
“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood
This famous 1969 book, also made into a 1981 film with an adapted screenplay by Harold Pinter, is a historical pastiche of Victorian and current-era romances, and offers the audience multiple alternate endings in both versions. Name it.
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This gifted writer of Urdu prose and poetry used the Urdu word for “lion” and later the word for “dominant” as his pen-names. When Sir Syed Ahmed Khan asked him for a foreword to his book on Abul Fazl’s Ain-e-Akbari, he wrote a short Persian poem criticizing Ain-e-Akbari, praising the “Sahibs of England” and advising Sir Syed not to waste his talent and time on dead things. Who?
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He was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling), the first Africa-born writer to receive the award, and the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident only three years after receiving the award. Who?
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This American writer, filmmaker, literary icon, and political activist died in 2004. She was very outspoken about military conflicts, in particular about Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo (where she spent some time). She also wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. What is the name of this cultural icon of 70s and 80s?
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She is a British writer who according to Forbes magazine was the first person to become a U.S.-dollar billionaire by writing books. She is best known for a series of books which turned kids away from TVs and computers. The last four volumes have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history.  Her books have been published in 65 languages and became instant classics around the world. Who is this extraordinary woman?
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This is an American classic that has since become a world classic. By now this novel has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages, and it sold about 65 million copies. Even though this story was originally written for adult audience over the time it became an icon for teenage rebellion. Who can guess the title of this bestselling classic?
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Margaret Mitchell, at the age of 49, was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13thStreet with her husband, John Marsh, on her way to see the British film A Canterbury Tale at The Peach tree Art Theatre in August 1949. She died at Grady Hospital five days later without regaining consciousness. Margaret won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for a novel she wrote. This novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies. An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking ten Academy Awards. Name the novel / movie.
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In which cartoon would you find this breed of dog (the wire fox terrier)?
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Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, _______________. Complete the sequence.
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Long Walk to Freedom is whose autobiography?
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