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• Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther were written by Goethe.World literature
• Paulo Coelho, who wrote The Alchemist, is a Russian writer.World literature
• Who wrote the Harry Potter series?World literature
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a children's book by a French writer.World literature
• The writer of War and Peace and Anna Karenina is Tolstoy.World literature
• Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?World literature
• Which French writer wrote The Little Prince?World literature
• Which Spanish novel tells of a man who read so many books of chivalry that he mistook them for the world?World literature
• Which prize is counted as the most respected in the world for a writer?World literature
• Which Russian writer wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina?World literature
• The Little Prince was written by the French writer Saint-Exupery.World literature
• The novel The Square was written by Yi Kwang-su.Korean literature
• Which Korean writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024?Korean literature
• Which work by Yi Kwang-su is counted as the first modern full-length Korean novel?Korean literature
• Which work is counted as the first novel written in hangul, the Korean alphabet?Korean literature
• Which traditional Korean verse form is made of three lines, an opening, a middle, and a closing?Korean literature
• Who wrote the poem 'The Silence of the Beloved', which begins 'My beloved has gone'?Korean literature
• The Silence of the Beloved was written by Kim Sowol.Korean literature
• Sijo is a traditional Korean verse form of three lines: an opening, a middle, and a closing.Korean literature
• Which Korean classical novel follows Yi Mong-ryong, who returns as a secret royal inspector to save the woman he loves?Korean literature
• Ancient Greek tragedy conventionally ended happily.World literature
• Which writer created the detective Sherlock Holmes?World literature
• Which German writer wrote Demian?World literature
• Which English writer wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?World literature
• Who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust?World literature
• Which English writer wrote Wuthering Heights?World literature
• Which American writer wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?World literature
• Which Brazilian writer wrote The Alchemist?World literature
• Which English writer wrote The Lord of the Rings?World literature
• Which American writer wrote The Great Gatsby?World literature
• The Lord of the Rings was written by J.R.R. Tolkien.World literature
• The writer who created the detective Sherlock Holmes was Agatha Christie.World literature
• Demian and Beneath the Wheel were written by Hermann Hesse.World literature
• Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte.World literature
• To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Ernest Hemingway.World literature
• The Harry Potter series was written by J.K. Rowling.World literature
• The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.World literature
• Which French writer wrote Les Miserables?World literature
• Which Russian writer wrote Crime and Punishment?World literature
• In which country is Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet set?World literature
• Which of these is not one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth)?World literature
• Who wrote The Metamorphosis, which opens with its hero waking up turned into an insect?World literature
• Les Miserables was written by Balzac.World literature
• The Metamorphosis is a Kafka story that opens with its hero waking up turned into an insect.World literature
• Shakespeare was a Spanish playwright.World literature
• Don Quixote is a novel by the Spanish writer Cervantes.World literature
• Romeo and Juliet was written by Cervantes.World literature
• The most respected international prize in writing is the Pulitzer Prize.World literature
• Haiku traditionally follows a 5-7-5 syllable form.World literature
• Which novel by Han Kang is about the Gwangju uprising of May 1980?Korean literature
• Which story by Kim Seung-ok is set in the fog-bound town of Mujin?Korean literature
• Who wrote the novel Please Look After Mom?Korean literature
• Who wrote Who Ate Up All the Shinga?Korean literature
• Who wrote the roman-fleuve Land (Toji)?Korean literature
• Who wrote the roman-fleuve The Taebaek Mountains?Korean literature
• Who wrote The Square, the novel that faces the division of Korea?Korean literature
• Which work won Han Kang the International Booker Prize in 2016?Korean literature
• Han Kang's The Vegetarian won the International Booker Prize in Britain in 2016.Korean literature
• Kim Seung-ok's Record of a Journey to Mujin is a story set in the fog-bound town of Mujin.Korean literature
• Han Kang's novel Human Acts is a work about the Gwangju uprising of May 1980.Korean literature