South American novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", "Love in the Time of Cholera", etc: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Mario Vargas Llosa
This Russian writer is the author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”: Feodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy
This famous Irish writer is the only person who has received both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar for his work. His most known work is the play “Pygmalion”: Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw
American writer, awarded with a Nobel Prize for literature, author of “A Farewell to Arms” and “The sun also rises”: Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner
Ancient Greek poet, the author of the Iliad and Odyssey: Homer Hesiod
Chinese legendary figure and author of “The art of war”: Sun Tzu Confucius
English novelist, author of “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Emma”: Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen
Asia’s first Nobel Prize laureate started to write poems when he was 8; two of his songs are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: Rabindranath Tagore Mahatma Gandhi
French novelist, the author of “La Comédie humain”: Honoré de Balzac Émile Zola
Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince and other fairy tales were collected and published by: Brothers Grimm Walt Disney
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