1. Who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

2. Which novelist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

3. Which Icelandic writer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955?

4. Who was the first writer in Chinese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

5. Whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?

6. Which French writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 but declined to accept it?

7. Which institution confers the Nobel Prize for Literature?

8. Which Russian writer was forced by his country to decline the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958?

9. Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

10. Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

11. Which American political novel by Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947?

12. Against which Booker Prize winner did the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini issue a fatwa in 1989?

13. What writer, the first Englishman to win a Nobel Prize, is remembered for his support of British imperialism?

14. Which of these awards is given by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music?