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Writers - Fiction Writers

Books are big business. Whether in paperback, hardback, ebooks or Kindle, it seems we can't get enough of storytelling! Fictional stories give us a respite from our everyday lives. They can be exciting, dangerous, romantic, enchanting or even terrifying depending on our preference.

If you fancy a change from reading during your coffee break, have a go at the following Picture Quiz which looks at 10 famous Fiction Writers. Best of luck!

  1. What is the title of Ian McEwan's first novel?

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    • Born: 21 June 1948
    • Place: Aldershot, Hampshire
    • Nationality: British
    • He spent much of his childhood in East Asia (including Singapore), Germany and North Africa (including Libya), where his father, a Scottish army officer, was posted
    • In 1997, he published Enduring Love, which was made into a film
    • He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam in 1998
    • In 2001, he published Atonement, which was made into an Oscar-winning film
    • In 2011, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize

  2. Agatha Christie wrote romances under which pen name?

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    • Born: 15 September 1890
    • Place: Torquay, Devon
    • Nationality: British
    • She is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays
    • According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time
    • Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books

  3. Edgar Allan Poe referred to the followers of transcendentalism as what?

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    • Born: 19 January 1809
    • Place: Boston, Massachusetts
    • Nationality: American
    • Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre
    • He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction
    • He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career

  4. Without Remorse, written by Tom Clancy, takes place during which war?

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    • Born: 12 April 1947
    • Place: Baltimore County, Maryland
    • Nationality: American
    • He is best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War
    • Some of his books bear dedications to Republican political figures, most notably Ronald Reagan
    • Tom is Vice Chairman of Community Activities and Public Affairs, as well as a part-owner of the MLB Baltimore Orioles
    • Clancy has been a Life Member of the National Rifle Association since 1978

  5. What is the name of the dog in the Famous Five series of novels written by Enid Blyton?

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    • Born: 11 August 1897
    • Place: East Dulwich, London
    • Nationality: British
    • Her books have enjoyed huge success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies
    • One of Enid's most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for early years readers
    • Blyton's literary output was of an estimated 800 books over roughly 40 years

  6. In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, what is the language known as?

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    • Born: 25 June 1903
    • Place: Motihari, Bihar, British India
    • Nationality: British
    • His real name was Eric Arthur Blair
    • He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) - they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th Century author

  7. In which novel by Charles Dickens will you find the character Wackford Squeers?

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    • Born: 7 February 1812
    • Place: Landport, Portsmouth
    • Nationality: British
    • Dickens is generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian period
    • He enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime
    • The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print
    • Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral "in an inexpensive, unostentatious and strictly private manner," he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey

  8. The first film adaptation of a Jane Austen book was in 1940. Which book was it?

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    • Born: 16 December 1775
    • Place: Steventon, Hampshire
    • Nationality: British
    • Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature
    • Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry
    • Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime
    • By the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer

  9. What is the title of George Eliot's final novel before her death in 1880?

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    • Born: 22 November 1819
    • Place: Nuneaton, Warwickshire
    • Nationality: British
    • She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
    • She is the author of seven novels, most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight
    • She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously

  10. In June 2011, J K Rowling announced that future Harry Potter projects would be concentrated in a new website called what?

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    • Born: 31 July 1965
    • Place: Yate, Gloucestershire
    • Nationality: British
    • She is best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series
    • The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a popular series of films
    • Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990
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