Female Authors
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Male Authors
Dates and Places
School Days
100

This woman wrote "The Women's Swimming Pool."

Hanan Al-Shaykh

100


This word refers to the political or cultural condition of a former colony.

Post colonialism

100

Wrote Things Fall Apart.

Chinua Achebe

100

Chimimanda Adichie is from this African country

Nigeria

100

He took a degree in philosophy from the University of Cairo.

Naguib Mahfouz

200

Wrote this story about an African chief?

Doris Lessing

200

A change in circumstance or fortune, usually unwelcome.

Vicissitudes

200

Most well known for his development and use of magical realism?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

200

Yehuda Amichai wrote poems about which city?

Jerusalem

200

Two different authors attended this university located in Egypt?

University of Cairo

300

Nawal El Saadawi wrote a novel with the name of which Egyptian goddess in its title?

Isis

300

Which word is defined as "idealistic, unrealistic, impractical?"

quixotic

300

This author wrote "God Has Pity on Little Children?"

Amichai

300

Doris Lessing was born in which Middle East country?

Iran (Persia)

300

Which author never attended college?

Doris Lessing

400

Interestingly, this author wrote a novel titled Americanah.

Adichie

400

How is furtive defined?

secretive, attempting to avoid notice or detection

400

In the writings of this author, the past and present combine as he explores the destiny of his people?

Mahfouz

400

Which author was born in 1977

Adichie

400

Graduated from National Colegio in Zipaquira?

Marquez

500
This author wrote a personal memoir titled Paula.

Allende

500

An "education novel" is known by this German word?

Bildungsroman

500

This author gained international fame with his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude?"

Marquez

500

Which country became a British protectorate in 1914?

Egypt

500

Chimimanda Adichie received her degree from a college in which state?

Connecticut