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PRIZEWINNERS

So you think you're pretty up to date with the best contemporary fiction, poetry and non-fiction? Take our quiz and see if you know who won which literary prizes in 2005...

 

 Question 1.
This novelist was first shortlisted for the Booker Prize back in 1989, but won in 2005 with The Sea. Who is it?

Iris Murdoch

John Banville

William Trevor

Kazuo Ishiguro

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 Question 2.
What was the title of Kate Thompson's book, which won the Guardian Children's Prize, and the Whitbread Children's Book Award, in 2005?

The Secret Policeman

The New Policeman

The First Policeman

The Last Policeman

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 Question 3.
In 2005 which author's novel - about Jamaican war-time immigrants to Britain - was named the best orange Prize winner of the prize's first ten years?

Andrea Levy

Joyce Carol Oates

Jackie Kay

Jamaica Kincaid

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 Question 4.
Which British playwright (and lesser-known poet) marked a distinguished literary career by being awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 2005?

Tom Stoppard

Caryl Churchill

Harold Pinter

Tony Harrison

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 Question 5.
Who is the author of The Harmony Silk Factory, recently awarded the Whitbread First Book Prize?

Zadie Smith

Hari Kunzru

Nitin Sawhney

Tash Aw

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 Question 6.
And, still on the subject of the Whitbread Prize, what was the title of Ali Smith's winning novel?

The Occidental

The Accidental

The Oriental

The Interdental

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 Question 7.
Which popular British poet has just won the T.S.Eliot Prize for best collection with Rapture?

Adrian Mitchell

Carol Ann Duffy

Roger McGough

Alice Oswald

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 Question 8.
Alexander Masters won the Guardian First Book Award at the end of 2005 with the story of his friend Stuart. What was the book's full title?

Stuart: A Life in Colour

Stuart: A Life in Reverse

Stuart: A Life in Hindsight

Stuart: A Life Backwards

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 Question 9.
Cold Calls, the latest instalment in a multi-volume retelling of Homeric myth, won the Whitbread Poetry Prize recently - but who wrote it?

Seamus Heaney

Jackie Kay

Christopher Logue

Simon Armitage

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 Question 10.
And finally, who won the Forward Poetry Prize in 2005 with the collection Legion?

Don Paterson

David Harsent

Sean O'Brien

Kathleen Jamie

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