Australian Culture MCQs

Australian Literature Awards MCQs with Answer

Who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2019?

a) Trent Dalton
b) Markus Zusak
c) Richard Flanagan
d) Tim Winton
Answer: a) Trent Dalton
Which Australian author won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North?

a) Peter Carey
b) Richard Flanagan
c) Geraldine Brooks
d) Tim Winton
Answer: b) Richard Flanagan
Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 for their literary work?

a) Patrick White
b) Thomas Keneally
c) David Malouf
d) Colleen McCullough
Answer: a) Patrick White
The Vogel Literary Award is presented annually for what type of literary work?

a) Poetry
b) Non-fiction
c) Short Stories
d) First Manuscript by a writer under 35
Answer: d) First Manuscript by a writer under 35
Who won the Stella Prize in 2020 for the novel “The Yield”?

a) Tara June Winch
b) Hannah Kent
c) Charlotte Wood
d) Michelle de Kretser
Answer: a) Tara June Winch
Which Australian literary award is dedicated to crime writing?

a) The Ned Kelly Awards
b) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
c) The Stella Prize
d) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Answer: a) The Ned Kelly Awards
Who won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2018?

a) Richard Flanagan
b) Michelle de Kretser
c) Jennifer Egan
d) Tim Winton
Answer: b) Michelle de Kretser
Which author won the Patrick White Literary Award in 2021 for their contribution to Australian literature?

a) Alexis Wright
b) Kate Grenville
c) Helen Garner
d) Kim Scott
Answer: a) Alexis Wright
Who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003?

a) Tim Winton
b) Peter Carey
c) J.M. Coetzee
d) Geraldine Brooks
Answer: c) J.M. Coetzee
Which award is known as Australia’s richest literary prize?

a) The Vogel Literary Award
b) The Stella Prize
c) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
d) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Answer: c) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
Who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017 for the novel “Extinctions”?

a) Richard Flanagan
b) Michelle de Kretser
c) Geraldine Brooks
d) Josephine Wilson
Answer: d) Josephine Wilson
Which Australian literary award is specifically for science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing?

a) The Patrick White Literary Award
b) The Aurealis Awards
c) The Stella Prize
d) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Answer: b) The Aurealis Awards
Who received the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the novel “A Fraction of the Whole” in 2009?

a) Richard Flanagan
b) Steve Toltz
c) Christos Tsiolkas
d) Alexis Wright
Answer: b) Steve Toltz
Which literary prize is awarded by the Australian Book Review?

a) The Stella Prize
b) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
c) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
d) The Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Answer: d) The Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Who won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for the novel “The White Tiger”?

a) Arundhati Roy
b) Salman Rushdie
c) Aravind Adiga
d) Kiran Desai
Answer: c) Aravind Adiga
The Queensland Literary Awards were established in which year?

a) 2009
b) 2012
c) 2015
d) 2018
Answer: b) 2012
Who received the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the novel “Carpentaria” in 2007?

a) Alexis Wright
b) Tim Winton
c) Peter Carey
d) David Malouf
Answer: a) Alexis Wright
Which Australian author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014?

a) Patrick White
b) Thomas Keneally
c) Peter Carey
d) Geraldine Brooks
Answer: b) Thomas Keneally
Who won the Vogel Literary Award in 2020 for the novel “Song of the Crocodile”?

a) Bri Lee
b) Evie Wyld
c) Nardi Simpson
d) Tara June Winch
Answer: c) Nardi Simpson
Which award recognizes excellence in Australian science fiction writing?

a) The Stella Prize
b) The Aurealis Awards
c) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
d) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Answer: b) The Aurealis Awards
Who won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2016 for the novel “The Life of Houses?

a) Kate Grenville
b) Michelle de Kretser
c) Tim Winton
d) Richard Flanagan
Answer: b) Michelle de Kretser
Which literary award is named after an acclaimed Australian poet and author?

a) The Patrick White Literary Award
b) The Vogel Literary Award
c) The Stella Prize
d) The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Answer: a) The Patrick White Literary Award
Who received the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the novel “That Deadman Dance” in 2011?

a) Kim Scott
b) Alexis Wright
c) Richard Flanagan
d) Christos Tsiolkas
Answer: a) Kim Scott
Which Australian literary award is dedicated to recognizing excellence in children’s literature?

a) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
b) The Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards
c) The Ned Kelly Awards
d) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Answer: b) The Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards
Who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2016 for the novel “Black Rock White City”?

a) Christos Tsiolkas
b) Alexis Wright
c) Michelle de Kretser
d) Kim Scott
Answer: a) Christos Tsiolkas
The Nib Literary Award celebrates excellence in which literary form?

a) Fiction
b) Poetry
c) Non-fiction
d) Drama
Answer: c) Non-fiction
Who won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2015 for the novel “In Certain Circles”?

a) Michelle de Kretser
b) Tim Winton
c) Helen Garner
d) Elizabeth Harrower
Answer: d) Elizabeth Harrower
Which Australian literary award recognizes outstanding contributions to Australian culture?

a) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
b) The Patrick White Literary Award
c) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
d) The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Answer: b) The Patrick White Literary Award
Who won the Vogel Literary Award in 2019 for the novel “Stone Sky Gold Mountain”?

a) Evie Wyld
b) Charlotte Wood
c) Mirandi Riwoe
d) Bri Lee
Answer: c) Mirandi Riwoe
Which award celebrates Australian writers, artists, and translators?

a) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
b) The Stella Prize
c) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
d) The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards
Answer: d) The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards
Who received the Miles Franklin Literary Award for the novel “The Eye of the Storm” in 1973?

a) Tim Winton
b) Patrick White
c) Geraldine Brooks
d) Peter Carey
Answer: b) Patrick White
Which Australian literary award recognizes excellence in historical fiction?

a) The Stella Prize
b) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
c) The NSW Premier’s History Awards
d) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Answer: c) The NSW Premier’s History Awards
Who won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for the novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”?

a) Tim Winton
b) Peter Carey
c) Richard Flanagan
d) Christos Tsiolkas
Answer: c) Richard Flanagan
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing was established in which year?

a) 2010
b) 2013
c) 2016
d) 2019
Answer: b) 2013
Who won the Vogel Literary Award in 2018 for the novel “Terra Nullius”?

a) Claire G. Coleman
b) Bri Lee
c) Charlotte Wood
d) Mirandi Riwoe
Answer: a) Claire G. Coleman
The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction is part of which literary award?

a) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
b) The Stella Prize
c) The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
d) The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Answer: c) The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2018 for the novel “The Life to Come”?

a) Michelle de Kretser
b) Richard Flanagan
c) Tim Winton
d) Alexis Wright
Answer: a) Michelle de Kretser
The Colin Roderick Award is associated with which literary prize?

a) The Stella Prize
b) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
c) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
d) The Queensland Literary Awards
Answer: b) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
Who won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2020 for the novel “The Yield”

a) Tara June Winch
b) Evie Wyld
c) Charlotte Wood
d) Michelle de Kretser
Answer: a) Tara June Winch
Which literary award is presented biennially to an author for their outstanding contribution to Australian literature?

a) The Patrick White Literary Award
b) The Miles Franklin Literary Award
c) The Stella Prize
d) The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Answer: a) The Patrick White Literary Award

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