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Which of the following is not a novel by J.M. Coetzee?
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219 times |
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173 times (56.5%) |
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46 times (15.0%) |
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Which of these recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature is the odd one out?
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128 times |
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45 times (24.1%) |
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Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee graduated in 1968 with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin with a thesis on the work of ...?
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99 times |
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46 times (25.6%) |
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Which novel by J. M Coetzee has as its intertext the story of Robinson Crusoe?
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110 times |
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41 times (22.7%) |
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69 times (38.1%) |
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With which one of these novels did Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee make his debut?
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75 times |
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27 times (20.8%) |
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48 times (36.9%) |
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55 times (42.3%) |
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Mrs Curren, a retired Classics professor, in J.M. Coetzee's novel, Age of Iron, reads from which great work of Latin literature to Vercueil?
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54 times |
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27 times (24.8%) |
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27 times (24.8%) |
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55 times (50.5%) |
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Who wrote the novel Ways of Dying, which deals with a main character who is a 'professional mourner' and loves eating green onions?
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53 times |
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28 times (26.4%) |
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25 times (23.6%) |
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53 times (50.0%) |
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In the late 1960s, Graham Greene discovered the work of a South African novelist in which he at once discovered affinities. Apropos one of this author's works, Greene wrote in the New York Times:
"________ will not find an instant audience; his/her novels are too original for that. They tease, they trouble, they elude. His/her audience will be the audience that only a good writer can merit, an audience which assembles slowly from far away in ones and twos; while the big book club motor-coaches hurtle down the highway towards oblivion, the rumor spreads that here an addition will be found to the literature of our time."
Greene and the author in question remained friends and visited each other on occasion. Who is this great South African novelist?
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68 times |
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11 times (10.7%) |
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57 times (55.3%) |
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35 times (34.0%) |
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Which metal connects the titles of books by Anthony Burgess, J.M. Coetzee, Alexandre Dumas, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ted Hughes?
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186 times |
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144 times (64.6%) |
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42 times (18.8%) |
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37 times (16.6%) |
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Which word connects the titles of books by J.M. Coetzee, Henry James, Ben Marcus and Edith Wharton?
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84 times |
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52 times (49.1%) |
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medium |
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32 times (30.2%) |
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22 times (20.8%) |
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In 2004 Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee published a volume, "Landscape with Rowers", of poetry he translated from which language?
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100 times |
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67 times (36.4%) |
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difficult |
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33 times (17.9%) |
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84 times (45.7%) |
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When J.M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003 he was a South African citizen, but has since emigrated. Of which country is he now a citizen?
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114 times |
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29 times (15.1%) |
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very difficult |
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85 times (44.3%) |
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78 times (40.6%) |
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