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Penguin prize-winners - They're champion

They're the brightest and the best, each and every one a recipient of a major literary prize, but how much do you know about our Penguin Prize-winning authors and their books? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz, but no prizes for guessing ...
1) Name Stupid White Men author Michael Moore's Oscar-winning 2002 documentary. Was it?
Bowling for Columbine

Hunting for Porcupine

Searching for Clementine

2) Apart from I, Claudius, Robert Graves is probably best known for the memoir that describes his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. What is the title?
Oh, What A Lovely War!

Goodbye to All That

Anthem For Doomed Youth

3) Who played the Nick Hornby character in the film version of Fever Pitch. Was it?
Sean Bean

Colin Firth

Hugh Grant

4) Name the two other books apart from The Ghost Road that make up Pat Barker's award-winning First World War trilogy?
Journey's End and The Good Soldier

The Last Man and The Waiting Room

Regeneration and The Eye in the Door

5) Which author published their prize-winning first novel at the age of just twenty-four, two and a half years after graduating from Cambridge University?
Hari Kunzru

Penelope Lively

Zadie Smith

6) One of our Penguin Prize-winning authors was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Was it?
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nadine Gordimer

Robert Graves

7) Which well-respected novelist has also won awards for their children's fiction?
Patrick Neate

Julia Darling

Penelope Lively

8) Which author, in addition to winning the Booker Prize in 1987, was also shortlisted for the same award in 1977 and 1984?
Nadine Gordimer

Anita Brookner

Penelope Lively

9) Which of the following Penguin Prize-winning novels has not been adapted for television?
I, Claudius

The Ghost Road

Hotel du Lac

10) Which of the Penguin Prize-winners chronicles a young American Jew's journey to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Is it?
Twelve Bar Blues

The Impressionist

Everything Is Illuminated
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