Test your knowledge of classic and contemporary Translated Fiction with The Outstanding Translated Fiction Quiz. 10 Questions on famous translated literature from the very best of worldwide writers. Enjoy!
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The Translated Fiction Quiz
Results
#1. The Lover by Marguerite Duras was set in which modern day country?
Unlucky! Published in 1984, it was set in prewar Indochina, modern day Vietnam
#2. The Artificial Silk Girl, published in 1933, was written by?
Unlucky! It was written by German author Irmgard Keun
#3. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami was named after a song by ……?
Unlucky! Norwegian Wood appears on The Beatles album Rubber Soul, released in 1965
#4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez features which fictional town?
Unlucky! Macondo is the setting, it is based on the authors childhood hometown of Aracataca in Colombia
#5. In which year was My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk published?
Unlucky! It was published in 1998 and translated into English in 2001
#6. Which book won the 2025 International Booker Prize?
Unlucky! Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq was the winner
#7. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu is the first installment in which Sci-Fi series?
Unlucky! The Three-Body Problem is the opening book in Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past series
#8. Who wrote the 1971 novel Chronicle in Stone?
Unlucky! Set in Gjirokastër, an ancient stone city in southern Albania, it was written by Ismail Kadare
#9. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi is set in which country?
Unlucky! Celestial Bodies is a 2010 novel by Omani author Jokha Alharthi. It follows the lives of three sisters and their unhappy marriages in al-Awafi, Oman.
#10. The 2021 novel The Most Secret Memory of Men by Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr won which literary prize?
Unlucky! It won the Prix Goncourt in 2021
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